Problem
1. Identify three successful and well-used scoring functions in areas of personal interest to you. For each, explain what makes it a good scoring function and how it is used by others.
2. Find a data set on properties of one of the following classes of things:
(a) The countries of the world.
(b) Movies and movie stars.
(c) Sports stars.
(d) Universities.
Construct a sensible ranking function reflecting quality or popularity. How well is this correlated with some external measure aiming at a similar result?