By Ben Weitzenkorn 1/30/12 8:54am

Mr. Shron (OkCupid)

OkCupid Data Scientist Max Shron Talks Data Analysis, Next OkTrends Post

Last Friday, OkCupid’s data scientist Max Shron gave about 30 students at a Hackdays event a peek at what he does everyday: take terrifying amounts of raw data, make sense of it and draw insightful conclusions based on what he finds.

Students—including three girls!—gathered in a classroom on the third floor of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and got ready to nerd out.
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By Adrianne Jeffries 9/14/11 10:20am

Sex

(OKtrends)

OKCupid’s Brilliant ‘OKTrends’ Blog Continues To Inspire Lesser Imitators

Has any startup company blog ever been as ripped off as OKTrends? OKCupid started compiling statistics about its users, thanks to Harvard data nerd and cofounder Christian Rudder, and releasing those stats as press releases and blog posts. Due to the subject matter–iPhone users have more sex!–the posts were sticky and fun and got picked up by bloggers everywhere. Read More