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In rudeboybert/okcupiddata: OkCupid Profile Data for Introductory Statistics and Data Science Courses

okcupiddata 0.1.0.9000

2021 revision of paper

The original 2015 Journal of Statistics Education publication of "OkCupid Profile Data for Introductory Statistics and Data Science Courses" was revised in 2021. The following changes were made:

• The essay data was
  • Randomly row shuffled, thereby uncoupling individual user profile data from individual essay
  • URL's to the following websites were removed: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr
• Random noise was added to the age variable: uniformly selected between {-1, 0, +1}
• The location and last_online variables were removed
• The date the data were collected was recast as "a period in the 2010s"

As such

• the main profiles data frame has been renamed profiles_revised
• the essay0 variable in the original profiles data frame is now in a separate data frame essay0_revised_and_shuffled

okcupiddata 0.1.0

Initial version of package

Modified original OkCupid profile data as follows:

• Essay responses: Due to file size restrictions, only the first 140 characters of each user's first essay response (essay0: my self summary) aree included
• Missing income values: Previously coded as -1, they are now coded as NA
• All other missing values: Previously coded as "", they are now coded as NA
• offspring and sign: String instances of "?’" are replaced with apostrophes
• last_online: Date/time strings are converted to USA/Pacific timezone POSIXct date-time objects

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