{"id":642221,"date":"2013-02-13T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69336"},"modified":"2013-02-13T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:49:39","slug":"a-look-at-okcupids-algorithm-getting-personal-with-ted-ed-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642221","title":{"rendered":"A look at OKCupid&rsquo;s algorithm: Getting personal with TED-Ed for Valentine&rsquo;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9PiPlRuy6E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How, exactly, does online dating work? In this <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/inside-okcupid-the-math-of-online-dating-christian-rudder\">perfect-for-Valentine\u2019s-Day TED-Ed lesson<\/a>, OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder walks you through how the dating website does its matching &#8212; by using a carefully-honed algorithm to create a compatability rating for two potential daters. In this fascinating video, Rudder shares how the site lets daters decide which factors are most important to them &#8212; and then crunches the numbers behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>TED-Ed animator Franz Palomares jumped at the chance to animate this lesson &#8212; for a very specific reason. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/2013\/02\/13\/okcupidrudder\/\">TED-ED blog interviewed him<\/a> to find out why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>We heard there was a special reason you wanted to work on this particular lesson. What was your inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">The general inspiration was very personal. Seven years ago, I met my wife on a dating website! So I felt a great attachment to sharing this lesson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Artistically, I had a lot of different inspirations. I knew immediately that I wanted to split it into two categories. One a very personal and human side, represented by hand-drawn characters &#8212; the match that is being made by the algorithm. And then a technical side, represented by\u00a0the 3D words and the heart transitions. The hearts falling are based on the raining code from the <em>Matrix<\/em>. I thought it would be a fun way to indicate that the program was working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>That male character certainly looks familiar. How did you decide what the characters would look like in the animation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Ha. The two characters that represent the users were easy. I knew from the moment I took on this lesson that I would work in some drawings of my wife and myself. From there, I decided I should include a character that looks like Christian to be the narrator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/2013\/02\/13\/okcupidrudder\/\">Read the rest of the interview on the TED-Ed blog \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69336\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69336\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=69336&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/_joR0a-wD0U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How, exactly, does online dating work? 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In this fascinating video, Rudder shares how the site lets daters decide which factors are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}