Ask HN: Any data scientists interested in dating app data?
Hey folks, I've been working a travel matching and dating app for the last 3 years. We have over 5M+ data points on users and match events. Data include: city (based on IP), current country, desired travel locations, search preferences, matches, gender, age, personality type (based on MBTI), ethnicity, mobility (not remote, semi, fully remote), languages, nationality, and photos of faces.
If you'd like to use the data anonymously for any research topics, please get in touch with me. We're sitting on a lot of data that could be really interesting. I find data scientists super inquisitive and brilliant, so just wanted to offer this opportunity to collaborate. Just make sure to use the best possible anonimization heuristics. Just removing names and stuff like that won't do. Do you have any suggestions or references to read up on? Which app is it? How does this work with legal data protections or even with just the trust of your users? Are you really saying "hey anyone on the internet, here's a bunch of sensitive personal data to use for whatever"??? Well everyone's a stranger until you get to know them. I'm not going to give strangers an anonymized data dump. I'll work with the person on it together. We'll make sure it's all legit. OKCupid, Hinge, and Tinder all analyze data! I would be! How do I get in touch with you? My contact can be gathered from my profile. Awesome, I'll ping you. Hi, I'm interested! Happy to deanonymize over email Sounds good-- I'll email you