Voting Methods with Google Votes

Google Tech Talk March 3, 2014 (show more for more details) Presented by Steve Hardt ABSTRACT Learn the ins-and-outs of common voting methods and algorithms for group-decision-making with illustrated examples in Google Votes. Google Votes is a Google-internal voting platform used for decisions like food selections, cafe names, t-shirt designs, and Halloween contests. This talk covers Approval, Ranked, Range/Score, and Plurality voting along with the Borda and Schulze ranking algorithms and their relation to Condorcet's Paradox. View part two of this two part series at http://youtu.be/F4lkCECSBFw Read the paper at 'Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network' http://goo.gl/eAxj9e