Amy shows her results on the Today Show’s Today.com

“Online dating sites are excellent places to find casual and serious long-term relationships, but only if you have a plan first,” Webb told TODAY.com. “I don’t advocate crunching numbers like I did, but I do strongly recommend that you start off with a list. What, exactly, are you looking for in a partner? Be extremely specific, even when it feels embarrassing…If having someone who’s three inches taller than you is important, for whatever reason, then write that down. If you absolutely cannot stand cats, write that down, too. Don’t self-edit.”

Read the full story at Today.com…

Amy and Brian Interview on Marketplace

Listen to the full interview here.

This interview may ring true for some of you — those who’ve eventually realized they’re looking for love in all the wrong places.

If that sounds familiar, then you’ll relate to Amy Webb’s story, in which she tries and fails in online dating — and tries again. And this time, she does those matching algorithms of those online dating sites one better. Her new book is called “Data: A Love Story.”…

Click here to watch the video in full screen.

Amy Webb’s TED talk about “Data: A Love Story,” the importance of being picky and going after want you want fearlessly and relentlessly.

See her data, learn all about her bad dates and find out the best way to create your own super profile in this funny, irreverent and poignant speech.

Watch the official Data, A Love Story trailer, directed by Ben Hickernell!

Trivia: His wife, Juliet, is the Juliet from the book! And that’s Brian at the very end, playing himself!

Read An Excerpt In Slate

It was now July, a few weeks since my date with Jim, the weed smoker who refused to split our dinner bill. I knew matching algorithms weren’t perfect, but I kept dating and decided not to cancel my memberships with eHarmony, Match.com, and JDate. The majority of dates I’d been going on weren’t horrible, they just weren’t great. I was an optimist rooted in math and logic…..

Read the full excerpt at Slate.com.

Mark your calendars!

Introducing: The Data, A Love Story Photo Scavenger Hunt

Team Data is kicking off our biggest adventure yet on January 31st, the day the book officially launches. 
Break out your cameras or smartphones and block off some time between January 31st and February 7th to play along. 
Read the book, learn how Amy used math and formulas to find true love, and then you can use math and points to earn fun prizes. 
Check back Thursday morning for the full details! 

Read An Excerpt @ CNN.com

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(CNN) — This wasn’t a part of the plan. At age 30, I was still single and had no exciting prospects.

Rebounding from a terrible breakup with my longtime boyfriend, I turned to online dating to find a suitable mate. I joined Match.com, eHarmony and JDate, a website for Jewish singles, and decided I would go out with whomever asked, as long as he didn’t seem terrifying.

The first two dates were comically bad.

Date Number One asked me out to a really nice restaurant, then didn’t offer to pay for (or even split!) the bill. He ordered a very expensive bottle of wine and two appetizers — neither of which I got to enjoy — before moving on to a three-course meal. While walking back to our cars, he suddenly diverted to a public park bench where he asked if I wanted a smoke. He then lit the shaggy end of a large marijuana joint right in front of an assortment of passersby. He mentioned something about his weed habit and impotence, but by then I was already running toward my car…

DATA In The NYT Sunday Book Review!

imageAbout halfway through her new memoir, “Data, a Love Story,” Amy Webb pauses to address the reader. Up to this point, the author’s online hunt for a husband has yielded little but farcically bad dates. In frustration she begins an analysis involving scatter plots and word clouds to discern the laws of success in online dating. “I want to reveal what I found,” she tells us, “so that you can improve your own dating profile.” (Spoiler alert: showing skin is a plus; lengthy “About Me” sections are a turnoff.) We then follow Webb as she uses her discoveries to lure Mr. Right. And, presumably, we close the book with a sense of how to do the same…..

Read the full NYT story here.