eHarmony has data on about 40 million registered users
Vaclav Petricek · Vaclav Petricek, eHarmony // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 10:17
Vaclav Petricek, Director of Machine Learning at eHarmony, outlines the dataset size used by the platform to build machine learning models for user matchmaking.
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“We have this data on about forty million users who have registered on eHarmony you know, since the beginning, and we know all these attributes about them”
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