How does a couple’s communication change over time – specifically from dating to marriage? A cute project to woo a girl evolved into an interesting data analysis project, and it shows a pattern that most people in relationships do experience. Data scientist Alice Zhao compared text messages she and her husband sent to each other at certain points of their relationship – dating, engagement, marriage – and analyzed the contents. What she found out was that the messages started out “flirty and personal”; as the relationship grew, text messages “became more predictable” – but this was because they were able to say other things in person. “We no longer have to text “I love you” from a distance in the middle of the night,” Zhao wrote. “I can now roll over, snuggle with my husband and whisper it into his ear.”
Read Alice Zhao’s interesting post on A Dash of Data.
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