Have you ever wondered how many times you could have crossed paths with your partner before meeting her? It is undoubtedly the story of many, who have met in various places before meeting, but that simply was not the time to get along.
The question posed by this article began over recent Christmas by a couple who decided to find out how much of a match they had before going out together. How they did it? Well, the data from Google Maps was the tool of this experiment.
Yes, it is through an application that the story of Channon Perry and her partner Dan, who had lived in the same city and attended the same university for more than five years, but met through a dating application, such as Genbeta review.
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Since Perry is a data analyst, she decided to figure out if she had previously met her boyfriend. To do this, she took into account that they shared a city and a university, so it was very easy for them to have already coincided in the perimeter.
The challenge of this test was to find how many times they crossed paths without noticing each other. To do this, they took advantage of the geolocation that follows many users who have GPS activated in the background.
And what better tool to review this data than Google’s location history. An exhaustive map of where we have been at all times.
The most interesting thing about this experiment is that any couple with location history turned on and some code can use it. For this, Perry offers us all the details on a dedicated web page.
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How to know how many times you crossed paths with your partner before you met them
The first step is to request and download this data through Google Takeout. This is the Google tool that allows you to have this data to be able to work with it directly.
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| DETAILS ABOUT TIME AND LOCATIONS |
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| 1. What is obtained by Google Maps are some JSON files, which contain details about the times and locations of each date. |
| 2. The second point was to mark the precision sought. A radius of 111 meters was chosen, to achieve a good quality of proximity, but also a sufficient amount of data. |
| 3. As for the location, they marked the start in 2015, which is when they moved to Cape Town. As for the time they had to be in each zone, it was 10 minutes. With those parameters, they could start comparing the records. |
| 4. In the cover image we can see the result of where each one was, obtained through the code that Perry offers on his website and that any interested party can replicate. |
| 5. The analysis and crossing of data yielded some conclusions. First, that her data was much more accurate (98% met the markings), while Dan’s was more imprecise (45%). A difference that is attributed to the fact that he might not always have mobile data or active location active. |
| 6. In total 2,729 coordinates, some of which were very similar between the two. That is, there were times when they practically coincided. Specifically, at the university they coincided up to 33 times. |
| 7. Always within the parameters of at least 10 minutes and 111 meters away. It was not the only site, since in the cafeteria of the social sciences building there are also some coincidences and the final result is that the couple must have coincided about 41.25 times. |
Having geolocation activated opens the door to this type of experiment. Normally geolocation is a very personal matter, but with your partner it may make sense to share it. There it already depends on the level of privacy that each one wants to establish.
For those people who do not mind sharing their location with Google, they also have the possibility of carrying out curious investigations such as that of this couple.
(YO)
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