OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder is a man obsessed with data. His dating site is known for gathering enormous amounts of information about users — the more questions you answer about yourself, the ...

Rudder will be at String Theory Charter School Feb. 10 to talk about his book, which discusses how data can be used as a tool for better understanding human behavior. Christian Rudder discusses his ...

WASHINGTON — The posts you “like” on Facebook do more than show support for a friend’s new baby or express your obsession over a video of cute kittens. Your “likes” help scientists understand human ...

While we all know the Internet affords us many opportunities to be anonymous (trolls, anyone?), there's also a ton of data available about you in the digital ether. Any time you sign up for a social ...

It's remarkable just how much of our lives are lived on-line today. It's become second nature. But what we might not realize in our daily on-line lives, is that every time we follow a link, "like" ...

Christian Rudder, a co-founder of the massively successful dating site OkCupid, has for years been collating data provided by the lonely-hearts who mingle there. He drills down into hundreds of ...

It's a common cliche that older men chase much younger women, but charts from the book "Dataclysm" provide real evidence that men at every age are consistently most attracted to women in their early ...

Snow’s chemical analysis of the water was inconclusive, but he discovered that the victims within 250 yards of the pump had drunk from it. There were a few anomalies, however: a monastery, a prison ...