So this morning OC Weekly put up a great little blog post about Malfideleco, a Spanish website that uses data visualization to break down last week’s massive Ashley Madison data dump (for those still new to the Internet being on computers, Ashley Madison is a (theoretically, now since disproven) anonymous dating site for people who want to cheat on their spouse). In no time at all, I clicked over to Malfideleco, searched for Maui, and learned a great deal more about our county than I’d anticipated.
Keep in mind this is crude visualization–all the site gives you are the number of users and the male percentage of those users for 15 Maui County towns (10 on Maui, one on Lanai and four on Molokai). Given the county’s relatively small population, the user numbers are also small. But they break down in pretty interesting ways:
MAUI
Kihei: 1,504 users
Lahaina: 1,075 users
Kahului: 954 users
Wailuku: 924 users
Makawao: 569 users
Haiku: 392 users
Kula: 369 users
Paia: 175 users
Pukalani: 60 users
Hana: 42 users
LANAI
Lanai City: 60 users
MOLOKAI
Kaunakakai: 62 users
Maunaloa: 24 users
Hoolehua: 15 users
Kalaupapa: 11 users
Kihei has the most users? Sure, we believe it. But 11 users in Kalaupapa? The population at the former Hansen’s Disease colony barely reached 90 in the 2010 census…
In any case, the data shows that Ashley Madison users are about 80-90 percent male across the county (which must make for some fascinating encounters for the few females who’ve joined the site). As for which town has the highest percentage of male users, that would be Hoolehua on Mokokai with 93.3 percent of their 15 users (that would about 14) being male. As for the least male-dominated Ashley Madison user group in the county, that distinction belongs to Pukalani, where just 76.7 percent of users are male.
Click here for the Malfideleco website.
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