###Can the OKCupid algorithm optimize love? Does tinder make us more indecisive? Speaker: [Anwen Roberts](https://twitter.com/eridisk) When at time all that hate speech, harassment & surveillance on the internet seems too much, let's try to remember that other, oft forgotten emotion: love. This talk is more of a search mission than a compilation of answers. Where is the love, digitally speaking? What can we learn from **OKCupid’s matching algorithms**? Can emotions and consciousness really be broken down into maths and stats? In this short and eclectic talk, Anwen will take a bleak look at the soft mushy stuff and look out for datalove in all the wrong places. Including: the three (or thirty) questions to ask your true love, everything you ever need to know about online sentiment analysis, what **“big data”** has to do with small psychology, what gamers are really passionate about, and much more...  The articles mentioned in the talk: [The New York Times: No. 37: Big Wedding or small?](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html?_r=0) [WIRED: How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love](http://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/) Produced by Voice RepublicFor more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com