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Big Data, Small Startups: One Angle On Turning Data Into Money
Two years ago, Google Chief Economist Hal Varian was telling us that one of the sexiest (his term) future jobs was going to be related to statisticians wrangling data. No one disagreed, as stacks were piling up and a variety of needs were emerging, but what seemed to be missing were the…
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Cracking the Facebook News Feed Code
What Daily Beast's Weber wanted to know was why we see the News Feed selections we're presented with - specifically, how friends' clicks dictate which networks you're shown, if certain activities are rewarded with exposure (especially when they're seemingly unmerited), and how one can work their way…
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View From Above: The Startup Map
Our Startups by Zip Codes post covered the United States, but a global overview is what we really want. To this effect, we were excited to see that data science blogger ?ukasz Kostka (Datalysed.com) made a nifty startup map using the CrunchBase API and CloudMade Maps. The map is merely an…
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Read Their Lips: Steve Jobs, and Measuring CEO Truthiness
We can evaluate online debate about what Jobs says and what he means, and then what Apple does, until we're weary. Lucky for us, someone else has done this work on a much wider scale. Stanford University researchers Anastasia Zakolyukina and David Larcker set out to find a way to tell when CEO's are…
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Google Web Search Gets Social
As Sullivan notes, it's quite different than the social search partnership Bing and Facebook rolled out last week. In Bing's new social search results, they only show users what's been shared by Facebook connections. Google, clearly flexing its search muscles, is looking to extend users' social…
