What are Facebook users thankful for?

As people all over the United States prepare to break bread and give thanks today, Facebook’s Data Science team wondered: What are people thankful for?

The usual answers — friends, family, health — top the list, but employment, children and shelter also made the top ten list.

Facebook’s Data Science team discussed the study:

We started by collecting a set of anonymized English status updates that contained “grateful” or “thankful,” as well as the word “day” preceded or followed by a number.

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