The age of Big Data has generated new tools and ... One of the early, influential algorithms is the college-ranking model from U.S. News & World Report. In fact, it's been so influential, the ...

One of the leading big data algorithms for finding related topics within unstructured text (an area called topic modeling) is latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). But when Northwestern University ...

It’s true that an algorithm itself is quantitative – it boils down to a sequence of arithmetic steps for solving a problem. The danger is that these algorithms, which are trained on data ...

we have entered the age of the algorithm. While our personal and professional data is being compiled and crunched, mathematical models are informing and even making essential decisions that have a ...

The more the model is gamed, the more expensive colleges ... For-profit colleges have been making heavy use of big data algorithms. Apollo Education Group, the parent company for the University ...

which is both a lender and provider of underwriting models for other lenders, as examples of the new, Big Data driven, approach to evaluating credit worthiness. Upstart uses its own algorithms in ...

This means you need a model of the object's movement and ... from genetics It's not just anti-aircraft targeting algorithms that Big Data can harness. It can also learn from nature.