A lert! Do not think you will get a beautiful life partner by reading this article (if you get, then congratulation to you). But what you will perceive from here? Okay, it will increase your chance to have a beautiful life partner and probably gives an insight into how to extract information from data.

Dates with people are a great way to see what type of person you attracted to. Is there something to get potential dates partner. I found a dataset that will help to explore this question.

Before exploring the dataset, we need to know a little bit about this dataset. Data was gathered from participants in experimental speed dating events from 2002-2004 which was conducted by the University of Columbia. During the events, the attendees would have a four-minute "first date" with every other participant of the opposite sex. At the end of their four minutes, participants were asked if they would like to see their date again. They were also asked to rate their date on six attributes: Attractiveness, Sincerity, Intelligence, Fun, Ambition, and Shared Interests.

let’s dive into it

At first have a look at the data. In this dataset has 8378 data samples with 195 features for each data sample. The first 3 samples of the dataset are,

From the above image, we can see there are lots of missing values. As the dataset is small only 8378 datapoints, in each datapoint maximum fields are NaNs in that it is not a good idea to delete all of the missing value fields, or probably bad practice to use imputation to guess the values rather than we can remove those columns from the dataset where more than 4000 values are NaNs.

So we have got 130 attributes for each data sample after removing those columns which have more than 4000 value are NaNs. Our aim is to find how many people got to the second date after the first-speed dating session.

Less than 20% participant who actually got the decision to go the second date. Let us dig more to find out what qualities they have considered (vice-versa) of their partners to take the second date decision. Okay, try to extract a little bit more information from them.

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What is their race?

Here we can see that most of the people who are willing to go to the second date most of them are Caucasian-American. It could either be a cultural thing or this event are were organized in a specific area with this demographic.

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let's check the ethnicity of those matched people

We find out that most of the people who got the second date were not the same ethnicity.

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What's the age of participants in this event?

If we see the age distribution of those participants, most of the participants were from 20 to 30. Do not worry if you are more than 30, there is a relatively small chance for you as age distribution is not zero after 30. So go for it.

We are reassured from this histogram that most of the participants' ages range between 20 to 30. But if we consider after 30 number of the females is greater than male Interesting 🙂.

For this plot, we can observe that "African American" females are a little bit older than male counterpart but we can see the opposite trend for every other race.

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Now see about their intended career?

If you are doing Business, Economics, Finance, or even Biological science, physics, or chemistry Hats off to you guys. A small number of engineers went to the second step in the speed dating event. The main reason may be engineers tend to devote most of their time building things than relationships 🙄

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Now let's just for fun think about an attribute why people participating in this first date events.

From this counterplot, we find out the majority of the people in this competition who did match out to either meet new people or just felt that it would be a fun night out. The limited number of people go out of this event for a serious relationship, respect for those people.

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Finally, they rate themselves how they thought others would rate them on each of the following attributes, on a scale of 1-10 (1=awful, 10=great). let's think about that feature

  • attr5_1 - > Attractive
  • sinc5_1 - > Sincere
  • int5_1 - >Intelligent
  • fun5_1 - >Fun
  • amb5_1 - > Ambitious

Wow 😲, that is interesting, if we observe these five plots that a large number of people are confident about themselves. Awesome! Confidence is everything to get some great outcomes. So be confident.

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In which activities are they interested?

If we see the participants' interest, most people like to eat, read, and watching movies. See below the heat map for male and female interest specifically.

we notice that not surprisingly liking art comes with liking museums, liking music with liking concerts, and liking sports with liking watching sports (but not a strong correlation with liking exercises for male participants). Also, theater and art correlation seem to be different for male and female participants.

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Unrequited love count

unfortunately, more than 25% of participants were heartbroken which is more than the percentage of people who got a second date. I do not know unrequited love is real love or not but one person is attractive, ambitious, funny, successful - does not mean that he/she is necessarily a great guy for you.

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Let's see some factors that can help to understand why people fall in love.

In this bar chart, we find out men want their partner to be quite attractive but women do not consider attractiveness as the main factor to choose a partner. Nevertheless, women also look for sincere, intelligent, and ambitious mates more than what men look for in women.

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