This is a really cool visualization/data set combination. Lovelines shows the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate experienced by people who keep “online journals” (Facebook, Twitter). “Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post.” I love visualizations like this because they take information that I care about and make it into a fun an interactive way to view data. This is very similar to the “We Feel Fine” visualization that the class viewed a few weeks ago, with a twist. I found this on valentines day as I was scanning through various visualizations, and I think that it’s relevance to our lives is very great. We all talk about our wants and desires at various points of the day, and even if we don’t verbalize it, there is ALWAYS going to be something that we want or don’t want. Through the online journals of others, we can all find a personal connection with their stories, and be entertained in the process.