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If you liked Amy Webb, you’ll love…

If you liked Amy Webb, you’ll love…

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[ted id=1833] For the past week, Amy Webb has been inspiring people to calculate their own algorithm for love. Her laugh-out-loud TED Talk, about reverse engineering her online dating profile and, essentially, data-ing her way into her perfect relationship has gotten a lot of attention, including on The Frisky and Pop Sugar. As Webb’s talk []

How does OKCupid’s algorithm work? A TED-Ed animator gets personal for Valentine’s Day

How does OKCupid’s algorithm work? A TED-Ed animator gets personal for Valentine’s Day

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How, exactly, does online dating work? In a this perfect-for-Valentine’s-Day TED-Ed lesson, OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder walks you through how the dating website does its matching — by using a carefully-honed algorithm to create a compatibility rating for two potential daters. In this fascinating video, Rudder shares how the site lets daters decide which factors are []