{"id":1731,"date":"2015-10-19T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2015-10-19T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:29:42","slug":"mit-algorithm-emulates-human-intuition-in-big-data-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"MIT algorithm emulates human intuition in big data analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1731\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Max Kanter, who created the algorithm as part of his master&#8217;s thesis at MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), entered the algorithm into three major big data competitions.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.csail.mit.edu\/EVO-DesignOpt\/groupWebSite\/uploads\/Site\/DSAA_DSM_2015.pdf\">In a paper<\/a> to be presented this week at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dsaa2015.lip6.fr\/\">IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics<\/a>, he announced that his &#8220;Data Science Machine&#8221; has beaten 615 of the 906 human teams it&#8217;s come up against.<\/p>\n<p>The algorithm used raw datasets to make models, predicting things such as when a student would be most at risk of dropping an online course, or what indicated that a customer during a sale would turn into a repeat buyer.<\/p>\n<p>Kanter&#8217;s algorithm seems to do a decent job of approximating human &#8220;intuition&#8221; with much less time and manpower, he hopes it can provide a good benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Washington Post by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/10\/19\/new-mit-algorithm-rubs-shoulders-with-human-intuition-in-big-data-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Kanter, who created the algorithm as part of his master&#8217;s thesis at MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), entered the algorithm into three major big data competitions.\u00a0In a paper to be presented this week at\u00a0IEEE International Conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}