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Big data

"How many hours do you spend for sleep?" "Do you have habits like grinding teeth and snoring?" Renmin University of China conducted a survey online in order to assign dormitories. The university also offers quilt order service according to students' height.

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Astrology

A university in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province assigns dormitories for its arts students according to astrology.

Nanjing University of Science and Technology came up with an idea to allocate dormitories "in order to assure there are similarities among four roomies." For example, four roomies all like to stay up late, all choose double degrees and are even of the same astrology.