Team creates an algorithm for predicting success of fashion models

Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 08:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A trio of researchers at Indiana State University has created an algorithm that crunches data used to describe fashion models—adds Instagram influence and then predicts, reasonably accurately, which among a list of models will become successful. Jaehyuk Park, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Emilio Ferrara have written a paper describing the process they took in creating the algorithm, how they tested it and how accurate it proved to be on a limited number of aspirants—and have uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server.

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