The underlying themes of automation and understanding are also behind the Associated Press's recent announcement that it will start using algorithms created by a company called Automated Insights to generate news stories from raw data, and the furore over a 2012 Facebook study which manipulated the emotional content of users' news feeds.
The presence of frailty and organ failure was computed using algorithms created by Fassbender and colleagues [ 25], who used a literature review, expert opinion, and cluster analyses to define various causes of death categories (sudden death, terminal illness, organ failure, frailty, and other).
This titan of personalised book recommendations uses algorithms created by an engine that "analyses 20 billion data points" and has a very strong social component.
In order to scale its digital content, NYX uses algorithms created by Olapic, a visual marketing platform, to decide which crowdsourced selfies are featured on its e-commerce site.
The startup came out of stealth mode in January to a decent amount of press coverage, promoting its service as a kind of Quora-meets-Klout proposition: you ask questions, and they get answered by experts or "influencers" in the relevant field using some algorithms created by Beepl to connect those questions to the right people.
Match.com, which became the largest online dating service by letting people find their own partners, set up a new matchmaking service, Chemistry.com, using an algorithm created by Helen E. Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers who has studied the neural chemistry of people in love.
Exposure to antineoplastic drugs was then classified as no, unlikely, possible, or probable using an algorithm created by the study hygiene team and completed by the occupational hygienist (see Figure 1).
Using the risk modeling and credit profiling algorithms created by Funding Circle, investors are able to invest directly in specific companies and projects, or can spread their bets across a range they select or choose Funding Circle to select on their behalf.
The detector sends its data on to a computer, which processes it using the precious algorithm created by the researchers.
Randomisation was performed 1 1 using a computerised algorithm created by the database manager (JK) with concealed block size, pre-stratified for site of recruitment, initial APACHE II and age (entered in an encrypted screening form in a password protected website); investigators were masked to assignment before, but not after, randomisation.
Haplotype blocks were assigned, using the D' confidence interval algorithm created by Gabriel et al. [47].
