You may have seen this little news nugget on your Twitter or Facebook feed this week, but let me set the story straight. Drake Martinet of All Things Digital proposed to Stacy Green of Mashable the night prior to the launch of this internet graphic. But the traditional proposal wasn’t enough for Martinet, he wanted to show his love for Green in the context of his second love, digital media. His solution was to create a statistical analysis of the chances of their love.
“I always say something unromantic, like ‘Yeah there’s probably only a few hundred thousand people who would fit with you as well as I do, and the odds of them meeting you is pretty low,’ ” Martinet said. “To me, that’s sort of the equivalent of soul mates.”
Martinet looked up population statistics and created an algorithm based on various factors such as where he’s lived, the amount of time he lived there and the average number of people he met each day. The couple believes that they met by more than just luck and the infographic is an illustration of that.
“I wanted to showcase that even though I’m pretty logical, and probably over-logical, I still believe in small miracles,” he said. “Stacy is evidence of that.”
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