Data Science Ranking Universities

In "Data science can fix ranking briar patch" (The Australian, 14 March 2018), Tim Dodd suggests that data science could be used to rank universities, but this has been done for years with the "Ranking Web of Universities".  Their methodology emphasizes the quality and quantity of information universities provide online (which I think is a good thing). This produces slightly different rankings for Australian universities, to measures emphasizing research output behind pay-walls.

For its top ten Australian institutions the QS World University Rankings has: ANU, Melbourne, UNSW, Queensland, Sydney, Monash, UWA, Adelaide, UTS and Newcastle. On the Ranking Web of Universities, ANU slips from first to fifth place, while UTS and Newcastle displace Curtin, and Macquarie in the bottom two places.

Australian Web ranking	World Web Rank	University	QS Australian Rank	Presence Rank*	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
1	55	University of Melbourne	2	179	108	53	26
2	62	University of New South Wales	3	166	87	85	52
3	63	University of Queensland	4	152	114	72	37
4	74	University of Sydney	5	626	172	94	30
5	75	Australian National University	1	122	72	75	131
6	93	Monash University	6	571	206	97	57
7	129	University of Adelaide	8	531	143	128	149
8	136	University of Western Australia	7	581	189	171	115
9	235	Curtin University of Technology	15	1069	227	245	276
10	271	Macquarie University	12	553	266	196	341