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3 Questions: Devavrat Shah on curbing online misinformation
MIT professor Devavrat Shah shares how social media algorithms could be tweaked to curb the spread of ... thought that he must indeed be carrying a dog if three people have told him so. Without even bothering to look at the animal, he let ... think of a time before social media, when we may chat with people in an office or learn news through friends. Although we are still ...
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Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
... by Manish Raghavan of MIT Sloan and EECS, and Devavrat Shah of EECS and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. ... and systems, there is often a steep learning curve which people have to climb in order to make full use of the resource. To help ...
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Networks of probability
Devavrat Shah is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science ... Article MIT News Devavrat Shah arrived at Stanford University as a graduate student in computer science ... as “small by Indian standards — only two million people.” While his father and grandfather had been professors of mechanical ...
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Learning from Social Data Processing
... store, however, seller decisions are trickier, says Devavrat Shah, MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences. When a ... right model coming from social sciences trying to capture people's behavior in a meaningful manner,” he says. “We think about ...
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Improving recommendation systems
... their predictions by 10 percent. But Devavrat Shah, the Jamieson Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical ... Similarly, ratings scales may vary between people. “Your three stars might be my five stars, or vice versa,” Shah ...
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What buyers want
... Co-founded by MIT professors Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah, Celect develops software that crunches a store’s sales and inventory ... Using Celect software, the retailer’s analysts noticed people buying soccer shorts and certain watches in some stores were also buying ...
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Recommendation Theory
... Article MIT News Devavrat Shah’s group at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ... and Computer Science. “It makes sense in terms of how people make decisions, exhibit preferences, or take actions. So let’s go and ...
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Using Data from Social Networks to Understand and Improve Systems
... of patterns — such as who is talking to whom and how much people are speaking. After the researchers analyze the data, they can intervene ... social data to make predictions and decisions Devavrat Shah, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, develops ...
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
... rating of a product, use not only the ratings from people with similar tastes but also the ratings from people who are similar to ... will effectively look like each other,” says Devavrat Shah, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and senior ...
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A game changer takes on cricket’s statistical problem
... Jehangir Amjad has done something few people can: He found a way to combine his favorite sport with his work. A ... researchers, under the supervision of MIT Professor Devavrat Shah. Because Shah is also a cricket fan, he and Amjad had been ...