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“Forget me nots” is a collection of simple visualizations of one woman’s emails from ex-boyfriends, represented by number and not by length, content, or importance. The data paints a tidy but obviously incomplete portrait of five different relationships. It shows what data visualizations usually show — a whisper of a bigger story.

It’s the first installment in Wall Street Journal data journalist Lam Thuy Vo’s “Quantified Selfie" series, through which she hopes to use data to explore human identity.

Quantified Selfie / Lam Thuy Vo

I do most of my internet-ing at work, so it makes sense that I do a lot of my feeling here too. At the mere suggestion that I revisit former romantic interests in the furthest reaches of my…

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