Amy Webb talks ab out online dating in her TED talk about improving your online image. The talk can be found here. Online dating sites attract an increasingly large amount of participation each year. With so many people online, it may seem easier to find that perfect someone online than by chance meeting in our busy lives.
February 11, by Jennifer Dutcher. Amy Webb used data science to find love. After a difficult breakup of a relationship when she was 30, and feeling the pressure of her heavily involved family, this data geek started crunching numbers to try to calculate her odds of finding a man in Philadelphia who would be a match for her needs and personality. The result? Out of the 1. A data fanatic, Webb decided to try online dating, since the matches are based on algorithms — a methodical system that appealed to her. After a number of bad experiences, she decided to start tracking data points during her lousy dates, which helped her discover that the limitation of the dating algorithms were defined by the user-generated data that was inputted into online profiles.
Data is out in paperback today! It was now July, a few weeks since my date with Jim, the weed smoker who refused to split our dinner bill. I was an optimist rooted in math and logic….. Read the full excerpt at Slate.
Annette Powers. In it, I was meant to document my online dating adventures. So I embarked into this new world of virtual trolling.