Data scientists analyze winning pizza donation requests
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 16:30
in Psychology & Sociology
"We live in a time where people increasingly turn to the web for help... Yet, the factors that lead community members to satisfy a request remain largely unknown." Thus states a study by researchers at Stanford and the Max Planck Institute SWS who examined a data set of requests for donations of pizza to figure out what kinds of requests for favors actually draw success.