If you Google "John Kleint," you won’t come up with much. This time last year, Kleint was working for a military defense contractor that he won’t name. "Big data analytics," he calls the job. "Projects involved analyzing a large social graph of people, organizations, and locations that were important to find meaningful connections," he says. Imagine the agent crunching numbers and tracing reports in Zero Dark Thirty.
"You’re looking for the bad guys," Kleint says.
Today, Kleint analyzes a very different kind of "meaningful connection" as the "chief matchmaker" at Hinge, a mobile dating app. Hinge is a lot like Tinder, a popular hookup app that only reveals potential matches once both people show interest, except it only surfaces...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/16/4627724/secret-data-man-hinge-dating-science
No comments:
Post a Comment