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The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm

published 126 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by

MissingLinq 127 days, 14 hours, 39 minutes ago

The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm

From blog posts to books, sorting a list of items by user rating is a very common task. In this blog post, we discover how the writings of an obscure 18th-century British minister lets us implement a “smart” ranking algorithm that takes into account the “wisdom of the crowd”, and presents a fairer and more accurate representation of results.

category: Architecture | clicked: 52 | | source: leedumond.com | show counter code

tags: Algorithm, ranking, rating

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