How Netflix’s AltGenre Movie Grammar Illustrates the Future of Search...
I recently got sent this Atlantic article on how Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood by a few contacts, and it happens to mirror my long term vision for how Ranker’s data fits into the future of...
View ArticleRanker’s Rankings API Now in Beta
Increasingly, people are looking for specific answers to questions as opposed to webpages that happen to match the text they type into a search engine. For example, if you search for the capital of...
View ArticleLists are the Best way to get Opinion Graph Data: Comparing Ranker to State &...
I was recently forwarded an article about Squerb, which shares an opinion we have long agreed with. Specifically… ““Most sites rely on simple heuristics like thumbs-up, ‘like’ or 1-5 stars,” stated...
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Can Colbert bring young Breaking Bad Fans to The Late Show?
I have to admit that I thought it was a joke at first when I heard the news that Stephen Colbert is leaving The Colbert Report and is going to host the Late Show, currently hosted by David Letterman....
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Gender and the Moral Psychology of Game of Thrones
Most of my published academic work is in the field of moral psychology, where we study the moral reasoning behind judgments of right and wrong. As I have previously argued, such study does not belong...
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Comparing World Cup Prediction Algorithms – Ranker vs. FiveThirtyEight
Like most Americans, I pay attention to soccer/football once every four years. But I think about prediction almost daily and so this year’s World Cup will be especially interesting to me as I have a...
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Ranker Predicts Jacksonville Jaguars to have NFL’s worst record in 2014
Today is the start of the NFL season and building on our success in using crowdsourcing to predict the World Cup, we’d like to release our predictions for the upcoming NFL season. Using data from our...
View ArticleRanky Goes to Washington?
Something pretty cool happened last week here at Ranker, and it had nothing to do with the season premiere of the “Big Bang Theory”, which we’re also really excited about. Cincinnati’s number one...
View ArticleCharacteristics of People who are less Afraid of Ebola
Ebola is everywhere in the news these days, even as Ebola trails other causes of death by wide margins. Clearly the risks are great, so some amount of fear is certainly justified, but many have taken...
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Ranker Predicts Spurs to beat Cavaliers for 2015 NBA Championship
The NBA Season starts tonight and building on the proven success of our World Cup and movie box office predictions, as well as the preliminary success of our NFL predictions, Ranker is happy to...
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The Clear Split Between AMD and Intel CPU Fans
Recently, Tom’s Hardware used the Ranker widget to poll for their Reader’s Choice awards. Among the topics they polled was the best CPUs and while I knew that there would likely be a preference for...
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The Opinion Graph Connections between 24, George W. Bush, Jack Bauer, and...
As someone whose roots are in political psychology, I’m always interested in seeing how the Ranker dataset shows how our values are reflected in our entertainment choices. We’ve seen many instances...
View ArticleCharacteristics of people who are not annoyed by Bill O’Reilly
On today’s The O’Reilly Factor (video below), Bill O’Reilly lamented the fact that he was only #10 on Ranker’s Most Annoying TV Hosts list and decided that he would make it his New Year’s Resolution to...
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Mashable mashes up Ranker Data on the Patriots vs. Seahawks
Did you know that Patriots fans are far more likely to be fans of Pulp Fiction and The Departed on our Best Movies of All Time list? Ranker knows millions of such facts (see our twitter account for...
View ArticleWill 2015 be the year that better data eclipses bigger data?
Data is a tool, not an end, but understandably, some people are really into their tools. They like to describe how many petabytes zettabytes their data takes up every second picosecond, requiring even...
View ArticleCognitive Models for the Intelligent Aggregation of Lists
Ranker is constantly working to improve our crowdsourced list algorithms, in order to surface the best possible answers to the questions on our site. As part of this effort, we work with leading...
View ArticleRanker is the YouTube of Opinions for Influencers
YouTube has created stars that are more popular than their mainstream counterparts and who leverage their videos into millions of dollars in annual revenue. The success of many popular social media...
View ArticleRanker Users Predict Final Four Teams Accurately Based on Limited Bias
In 2015, Ranker’s voters predicted seven teams in the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight. With the field for the Sweet 16 now set, we can see how well our rankings can predict how far a particular team will...
View ArticleWhy do Ranker voters think Ellen should be president?
Yesterday, Ellen talked about being voted #1 on our list of Celebrities who should run for President. What is it that makes a celebrity “president”-worthy? Because Ranker polls about each person along...
View ArticleCollecting and Connecting Millions of Opinions
Ranker Insights is the Most Precise Data for Entertainment, Personalities, Sports, Brands and More Advertisers, Marketers, Publishers, Retailers and the Media now have the ability to target audiences...
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