If you were particularly bummed by that whole horoscope shakeup last week (I, for one, would really dig being an “Ophiuchus”), here’s something to ease your mind: Data visualization master David McCandless and coder Thomas Winnigham have put together one, generic horoscope, fashioned from those archived on Yahoo Shine.
The above horoscope — which applies to everyone — is just one part of McCandless and Winnigham’s “Horoscoped” project, in which they used a Python script to screenscrape 22,186 horoscopes from Yahoo Shine into a spreadsheet. (You can check out the Python scripts they used on their website.)
From there, they analyzed the ‘scopes in a variety of ways, one of which revealed that about 90% of the words in the horoscopes were the same, a revelation that let them write the above prediction.
McCandless and Winnigham have more fun star sign-related stuff over at Information is Beautiful, so head on over and take a look.
I would get all hyped up over these realizations if it weren’t for today’s horoscope for Capricorns: “Just keep coasting. You need to experience things for a while and be passive.”
Duly noted.
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