Quantitative analysis at Google
Jean talked about what she mainly does in Google as a quantitative analysts. in deciding which webpage shows up first when someone search for a certain key word, the engine would calculate how probable it is for people to want that certain website when they typed that keyword.
to calculate the importance of a certain website, a function that has the importance of other webpage that links to the chosen webpage as input, and the importance of the chosen webpage as output.
these importance of the webpages are interrelated, and turns out you can form a matrix with those data, and finding the eigen value will allow you to calculate the importance of each individual webpage.
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