Data Has Feelings
@datahasfeelings.bsky.social
Writing project. Thinking about how data makes people feel, and how the way people feel shapes data.
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Hello. I'm here to write and post about data and statistics, and how these things relate to the messy world of human emotions.
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog
Fun fact: my partner did a version of this experiment for his Psychology A-level. Came into school with a large cardboard box and asked people at random, "Will you hold this box for me?" or "Will you hold this box for me *for a psychology experiment*?". The latter group held the box for longer!
My latest post is about FEAR, and TRUST, and also SNAKES.
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
The absence of fear: Martin Orne's strange experiments
If you’re collecting data from people, how they feel at the time is likely to affect the data you get. This might seem obvious, but it gets overlooked all the time. And so in the 1950s, a psychologist...
datahasfeelings.blog
September 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Fun fact: my partner did a version of this experiment for his Psychology A-level. Came into school with a large cardboard box and asked people at random, "Will you hold this box for me?" or "Will you hold this box for me *for a psychology experiment*?". The latter group held the box for longer!
My latest post is about FEAR, and TRUST, and also SNAKES.
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
The absence of fear: Martin Orne's strange experiments
If you’re collecting data from people, how they feel at the time is likely to affect the data you get. This might seem obvious, but it gets overlooked all the time. And so in the 1950s, a psychologist...
datahasfeelings.blog
September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My latest post is about FEAR, and TRUST, and also SNAKES.
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
How does "being in a research study" affect how your participants feel, and the data you get from them? Nobody thought much about this question until a 1950s psychologist set up some odd "experiments"...
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7931348...
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There’s a Calvin in every dataset.
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
There’s a Calvin in every dataset.
Reposted by Data Has Feelings
I wrote another thing, longer than I intended, about desire paths as data visualizations and how they can foster feelings of connection and togetherness, or alienation, depending on how you look at them.
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
Together and alone: Treating desire paths as data visualizations
Accidental desire paths...
I get a bit obsessed with the idea of desire paths as natural data visualizations. Thinking about them in that way taps into lots of the things I’m interested in, and that.....
datahasfeelings.blog
August 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I wrote another thing, longer than I intended, about desire paths as data visualizations and how they can foster feelings of connection and togetherness, or alienation, depending on how you look at them.
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
I wrote another thing, longer than I intended, about desire paths as data visualizations and how they can foster feelings of connection and togetherness, or alienation, depending on how you look at them.
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
Together and alone: Treating desire paths as data visualizations
Accidental desire paths...
I get a bit obsessed with the idea of desire paths as natural data visualizations. Thinking about them in that way taps into lots of the things I’m interested in, and that.....
datahasfeelings.blog
August 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I wrote another thing, longer than I intended, about desire paths as data visualizations and how they can foster feelings of connection and togetherness, or alienation, depending on how you look at them.
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
It's... fun, honest? It's fun!
📝 🤝 📊
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7927844...
First post I'm promoting here. And it's about EMBARRASSMENT, because what's more embarrassing than attempting to blog in 2025?
It's about the strange discomfort I feel when Spotify tells me how my listening habits are different from other people's.
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7902447...
📝 😳 📊
It's about the strange discomfort I feel when Spotify tells me how my listening habits are different from other people's.
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7902447...
📝 😳 📊
Embarrassment: Why do I feel ashamed to be a Spotify outlier?
Embarrassment, when you break it down, is about feeling singled-out and different from everyone else but not in a good way. In data terms, nobody wants to be an outlier.
I think this is why I...
datahasfeelings.blog
July 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
First post I'm promoting here. And it's about EMBARRASSMENT, because what's more embarrassing than attempting to blog in 2025?
It's about the strange discomfort I feel when Spotify tells me how my listening habits are different from other people's.
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7902447...
📝 😳 📊
It's about the strange discomfort I feel when Spotify tells me how my listening habits are different from other people's.
datahasfeelings.blog/post/7902447...
📝 😳 📊
Hello. I'm here to write and post about data and statistics, and how these things relate to the messy world of human emotions.
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog
July 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hello. I'm here to write and post about data and statistics, and how these things relate to the messy world of human emotions.
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog
Most writing happens in slightly-longer-than-Bluesky form here: datahasfeelings.blog