A look at OKCupid’s algorithm in this Valentine’s Day TED-Ed lesson. How, exactly, does online dating work?
In 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 most important to them — and then crunches the numbers behind the scenes. TED-Ed animator Franz Palomares jumped at the chance to animate this lesson — for a very specific reason. The TED-ED blog interviewed him to find out why. The Big Bang Theory - The Friendship Algorithm. Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world.
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