30 minutes with a stranger

In this story, we’ll go through 30 minutes of conversation between the people you see here.

They are a subset of nearly 1,700 conversations between about 1,500 people as part of a research project called the CANDOR corpus. The goal was to gather a huge amount of data to spur research on how we converse.

https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger

science.org: The CANDOR corpus: Insights from a large multimodal dataset of naturalistic conversation