Predict Facebook Friends Based On Where You Go (t3.com News)

... predicts friends," Salvatore Scellato, one of the researchers told Reuters . The researchers used Gowalla in their work - a social networking site that allows users to share which place they are visiting. Scellato added that people who go to the same place add each other as friends, and found that about 30% of social links happened because people went to the same location. This...

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Predict Facebook friends based on where you go (T3.com News)

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Aussie Government Competition To Predict Commute Times

databuff writes "Last week, Sydney's Minister of Roads, David Borger, launched a $10,000 competition to develop an algorithm that predicts commute times on a major Sydney freeway. The winning algorithm will be used to power predictions on the Sydney live traffic website. The hope is that the predictions will help commuters make informed decisions about when to travel and on what routes, lowering the intensity of peak hour traffic. In its first week, the competition attracted entries from more than 50 teams and 19 countries."

Aussie Government Competition To Predict Commute Times

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