CPC G06N 7/00 (2013.01) [G06F 17/15 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06F 9/541 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |
7. A method for identifying entrepreneurial individuals associated with an application for venture funding, the method comprising:
receiving grade information associated with each of a plurality of individuals;
determining, for each of the plurality of individuals, a variation metric associated with the individual's grades;
identifying a plurality of institutions, each of the plurality of institutions associated with at least one of the plurality of individuals;
determining, for each institution associated with at least one individual, that an average variability metric associated with the institution is not stored in the memory;
identifying a first source of grade variability data for a first institution of the plurality of institutions, wherein the first institution is associated with a first individual of the plurality of individuals, the first individual associated with a first application for venture funding;
retrieving grade variability data for the first institution from the first source of grade variability data;
determining that the variation metric of the first individual's grades is larger than the average variation metric associated with the first institution by at least one standard deviation; and
causing information to be presented indicating that the first application for venture funding is associated with an individual that is more likely than average to be entrepreneurial.
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