My Failed Book Analyzing 580k Craigslist Personals

But the most fun thing I did was set up the ability to generate some on-demand chloropleth maps of the United States, where different states are shaded by the relative frequency with which they use a term. In the 2017 data, you can see clear evidence of Trump’s entry into American public life in the way he and his paleolithic approach to gender politics appear in sexual fantasies. I tried different angles on the overall subject matter (“An Atlas of American Kink”-style coffee table book, a personal memoir about all the weird stuff I was wading through, a topical analysis of the material tying the site to trends in our generally oversexed culture

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