Peak Break Up Times

This graph represents peak break-up times according to facebook status updates and was created by David McCandless and Lee Byron. I found this piece of information design on www.informationisbeautiful.net.

As you can see from this piece of work, it is very much a fun infographic, which you can see from the typography that has been used to describe different time periods of breaking up, such as Christmas “too cruel”. Also Spring Break “spring clean” was used to describe this time.

I think the data being given is very sketchy because there is no sort of figures being given. It is all very much the months being shown in comparison to one another, as opposed to any set figures and numbers being shown to representing couples. You can see from the graph however, that there are a similar number of break-ups that occur in March time and beginning of December time.

Again, because this kind of data is quite meaningless, the lack of figures is understandable. It is simply showing the different months and when the top times are for couples breaking up according to facebook. As you can see the summer holidays and also during the festive period these appear to be the times where couples do not break up.