ATodd – When Harvard Met Sally : N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section | News Genius
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What do the world’s most self-important people think is important?
The neat thing about these announcements is that they’re fairly structured—if you read a bunch of them, you’ll notice patterns in the way couples are introduced and how their basic “stats” are phrased. This makes it possible to rigorously test our intuitions about trends like:
The decline of debutante culture
When exactly Wall Street hit its period of peak decadence
How the average age of well-to-do brides changes over time
Whether Princeton’s stricter grading standards have resulted in the “nightmare scenario” envisioned by a concerned student in the Times itself
une #enquête à la Coulmont dans les annonces de #mariages du #NYT
#data-journalisme via @archiloque