README.md

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

okcupiddata (revised in 2021)

R package of cleaned profile data from the 2021 revision of OkCupid Profile Data for Introductory Statistics and Data Science Courses (Journal of Statistics Education 2015): 59,946 OkCupid users who were living within 25 miles of San Francisco, had active profiles during a period in the 2010s, and had at least one picture in their profile.

The data in this package are a “cleaned” version of the 2021 revised data from the above paper, in that the following variables are modified for easier use by novices:

• In profiles_revised:
  • 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
• In essay0_revised_and_shuffled
  • Essay responses: Randomly row-shuffled essay data, thereby uncoupling individual essays from individual user profile information. Due to file size restrictions, only the first 140 characters of each user’s first essay response (essay0: my self summary) are included.

Note:

• The original data, publication, code, and codebook can be found here.
• The original data, and hence also this cleaned data, did not include usernames.
• Permission to use this data was explicitly granted by OkCupid.
• Revisions in 2021:
  • Removed the exact date the data was collected.
  • Shuffled/randomized the order of the rows of the essay data, thereby decoupling the essay data from the profiles data.
  • Removed URL’s in the essay data that involved the following domains: facebook.com, instagram.com, twitter.com, pinterest.com, and flickr.com.
  • Added random noise to age variable in the profiles data: uniformly selected between {-1, 0, +1}.
  • Removed the following variables from the profiles data: location, last_online

Installation

Get the released version from CRAN:

install.packages("okcupiddata")

Or the development version from GitHub:

# If you haven't installed devtools yet, do so:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rudeboybert/okcupiddata")

Load Data

To load the revised profile data, run:

library(okcupiddata)
profiles_revised

To load the row-shuffled essay data, run:

essay0_revised_and_shuffled

rudeboybert/okcupiddata documentation built on May 20, 2021, 11:14 a.m.