Anatomy of Breakups

Lee Byron has collected data from Facebook, census stats and world fact books about breakups and created a series of fascinating charts and visualizations. From the intro:

Did you know that the most likely day of the year to be broken up with is the first Monday in December? Perhaps some combination of seasonal affect disorder and a case of the Mondays has warped the idea of you meeting their family over the holidays into something horrid. Consequently, Christmas Day is the least likely day of breakups. If you make it through spring cleaning, watch out for April. April fools, we’re breaking up! No, really..

More graphics at the link above. Click on photo for high-res.

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