Info

This section offers a comprehensive overview of how the project works, what data is available to the user, and how to navigate the app for the best experience.

What This Is

This application is meant to help provide meaningful insights about interactions users had with people on the Hinge dating app.

Hinge allows users to request an export of their personal data that was collected while they were using the app. If you have a Hinge account, you can request your data by going to Settings → Download My Data. It typically takes between 24 and 48 hours to fulfill this request, and once the data are ready, Hinge provides a `.zip` file with your personal data.

The data export provided by Hinge contains several files, but the main thing is the `index.html` file, which is used to render a webpage with tabs showing different data. The tabs provided by Hinge are labeled: User, Matches, Prompts, Media, Subscriptions, Fresh Starts, and Selfie Verification. Aside from viewing changes to your prompts or seeing which pictures you've uploaded, these data are not particularly useful, especially the Matches tab, which is the most disappointing. The Matches tab contains a list of `matches`, but I actually refer to them as `interactions` in this project because not all of them are true matches- some are just unrequited likes or unmatches. Needless to say the export provided by Hinge leaves a lot to be desired, so this project is meant to provide more insights.

Caveats

Important Limitations
Hinge does not provide any documentation about the data in the export so this analysis is based off my own inferences from working with the data
Hinge occasionally updates and modifies the data they send in the export, which may or may not make aspects of this analysis obsolete or cause it to break

Assumptions

Since there is no documentation provided by Hinge, here are some assumptions I am making about the data in the export:

Unmatches, or `blocks` as Hinge refers to them, could go either direction, meaning you could have unmatched the other person or they could have unmatched you. Hinge does not include any additional data in these events to tell who unmatched who
Matches without a like in the same event mean that someone liked you first, and you chose to match with them (i.e. they liked you first)
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