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From data to dating, Sam Yagan found a way to predict a (hopefully) perfect pairing by having people answer a laundry list of questions and crunching the numbers. How else would you discover that the best way to tell a couple's in it for the long haul is whether or not they like the same kind of movies?

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Online dating has ballooned to a $4 billion business. Now the industry faces new players (Spotify) and challenges (how do you keep happy couples engaged in a dating site once they’re, well, engaged?). OkCupid’s Sam Yagan shares his ideas for engineering better relationships.

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