About This Project

In January 2026, a hacker collective called Martha Root leaked data from the far-right white supremacist dating website whitedate.net, a platform that described itself as a site for “Europids seeking tribal love.”.

“Europids” is a term commonly used in white supremacist and eugenicist spaces. The language reflects racist beliefs that race is biologically fixed and hierarchical, a sentiment that is quite common in modern far-right extremist communities.

After scrubbing private emails and direct messages, Martha Root publicly released the remaining dataset. This project explores that leaked data through a series of visualizations created for a Data Visualization course at Hunter College in May 2026.

The original dataset contained 8,177 user entries.

To create the working dataset for this project, entries were removed if they:

  • Contained "n/a" responses for Age, Gender, or Marital Status
  • Listed ages below 17 or above 100

After cleaning, the final dataset used for analysis contained 8,130 entries.

Each visualization was then cleaned and recoded independently. This was intentional, most variables had substantial (+50%) missing data and separate cleaning pipelines stopped one analysis from influencing another analysis. Below is a breakdown of how each visualization was cleaned and recoded.

NoteMap
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response" for:
    • Income
    • Education
    • Marital Status
    • Looking For
    • Want Children
    • Have Children
    • Astrological Sign
    • Tested IQ
NoteAge Distribution
  • Remove "n/a" responses
  • Remove entries younger than 17 or older than 100
  • Convert Age from character to numeric
NoteGender
  • Remove "n/a" responses
NoteIncome
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response"
NoteEducation
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response"
  • Retain "Diploma Level" category
NoteMarital Status
  • Remove "group forums only" responses
  • Recode:
    • "single, divorced" → "divorced"
    • "single, separated" → "separated"
    • "single, widowed" → "widowed"
NoteLooking For
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response"
  • Remove "group forums only" responses
NoteWant Children

Recoded multiple responses into broader categories:

  • "cannot have children" → "do not wish to procreate"
  • "do not wish to procreate (further)" → "do not wish to procreate"
  • "i have one child" → "has children"
  • "i have 2 children" → "has children"
  • "i have three children" → "has children"
  • "not yet but would like to" → "would like to have children"
  • "would like to have 1 child" → "would like to have children"
  • "would like to have 2 children" → "would like to have children"
  • "would like to have 3 children" → "would like to have children"
  • "would like to have 4 children" → "would like to have children"
  • "would like to have more than 4" → "would like to have children"
  • "prefer not to say" → "No Response"

Then removed "No Response" entries from the visualization.

NoteHave Children
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response"
NoteAstrological Sign
  • Remove "n/a" responses
NoteTested IQ
  • Recode "n/a" responses to "No Response"