Changing My Religion - Insights from Social Media Data

Few things in my life were as turbulent as my religious journey, which you can read about in detail here (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5). It has taken me a few years to really deconstruct things in hindsight. And very likely I will still gain new insights in the coming years.

One of the more interesting parts of my journey has been the amount of data collected through social media. Because most of my religious evolution happened in the form of a public social media conversation, I have data in a form never seen before.

My facebook data was exported from the Facebook Graph API, loaded to a SQLite database, munged and visualized in Tableau.

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Comments (3)

Katarina Persson 1/24/2020

Are you still on facebook?

Yuriy 10/21/2022

Yes I am, though I don't blog as much due to my two wild boys taking up all my time

hal harmon 7/4/2021

What do you say to the ones who say these are not contradictions that you write about, but variations, inconsistencies or taken out of context?