Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match
“Amy Webb found her true love after a search that's both charmingly romantic and relentlessly data-driven. Anyone who uses online dating sites must read her funny, fascinating book.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project

After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.
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Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match
“Amy Webb found her true love after a search that's both charmingly romantic and relentlessly data-driven. Anyone who uses online dating sites must read her funny, fascinating book.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project

After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.
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Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match

Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match

by Amy Webb
Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match

Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match

by Amy Webb

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Overview

“Amy Webb found her true love after a search that's both charmingly romantic and relentlessly data-driven. Anyone who uses online dating sites must read her funny, fascinating book.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project

After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780142180457
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 928,194
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Amy Webb is an award-winning journalist who wrote for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications before founding Webbmedia Group, a digital-strategy consultancy that works with Fortune 500 companies, major media companies and foundations, the government, and others. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

This isn't a typical introduction. Start here first!

1 Missed Connections 3

He quoted me to me

2 Single in the City 17

Learning how to date-and to hate dating-again

3 Signing On 29

You are a: woman seeking man

4 The Dates 49

Two hundred dollars for dinner and a roadside flare of weed

5 Bad Algorithms 61

Online dating sites are broken

6 The List 85

Must not like Cats!

7 The Mirror of Truth 125

I am not Cameron Diaz

8 Fuck You, Impostors! 137

You are a: man seeking woman.

9 Gaming the System 159

In which I outsmarted the algorithms

10 You're a 5-Apatow, 5-Seinfeld 183

What the popular girls know

11 The Super Profile 203

Fun, outgoing breasts!

12 Finding Bobo 221

My last first date

13 The Train Home 253

Subtlety wasn't my strong suit

Epilogue 263

What happened next, and the other side of my story

Notes 267

Answers to everything you were wondering. (And a diatribe on the musical genius of George Michael.)

Appendix 283

More data

Acknowledgments 293

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