Monday, 10 February 2014

LineUp app: Create your own rankings

From Times OF India

WASHINGTON: Harvard researchers have created LineUp, an open-source application that allows ordinary citizens to make quick, easy judgments about rankings based on multiple attributes.

"It liberates people," Alexander Lex, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), said.

"Imagine if a magazine published a ranking of 'best restaurants.' With this tool, we don't have to rely on the editors' skewed or specific perceptions. Everybody on the internet can go there and see what's really in the data and what part is personal opinion," .. Read More

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