--- title: Five Best Ideas: Big Data May Be The Secret To Love description: Is big data the secret to true love, this is what happens if the Violence Against Women Act is defunded and more. canonical: https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-15T17:00:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:04.278Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Big Data May Be The Secret To Love og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Big Data May Be The Secret To Love twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Big Data May Be The Secret To Love by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 15, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 15, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Is big data the secret to true love?**](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030702-800-metadating-helps-you-find-love-based-on-your-everyday-data/) By Aviva Rutkin in _New Scientist_ **2\.** [**This is what happens if the Violence Against Women Act is defunded.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/what-could-happen-if-violence-against-women-act-defunded) By Kelly Walsh and Janine M. Zweig at the _Urban Institute_ **3\.** [**This unconventional prize is putting thousands on the road to saving money.**](http://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/prize-savings-marrying-a-social-sector-idea-with-private-sector-scale/) By Timothy Flacke at the _Ford Foundation_ **4\.** [**Here’s how to make artificial intelligence safe from bias.**](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/keep-ai-turning-racist-monster/) By Megan Garcia in _Wired_ **5\.** [**Sometimes the best way to succeed at a four-year college is to start at a two-year college.**](http://hechingerreport.org/two-year-college-sometimes-best-path-four-year-degree/) By Jocelyn Roman in the _Hechinger Report_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/"},"headline":"Big Data May Be The Secret To Love","datePublished":"2017-02-15T17:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:04.278Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","big data","finance","AI"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4671717/big-data-may-be-the-secret-to-love/","name":"Big Data May Be The Secret To Love"}}]}] ```