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This is video of the San Francisco School Board renaming committee making a decision to rename Sanchez Elementary School. They researched the wrong Sanchez. In the Google Sheet of …

Written by a Slack and Microsoft competitor. Teams is still in preview, and the developer platform w/ 3rd party integrations hasn't even launched. https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/…

Good overview, similar to the year in review conclusions here: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/2016-bots-year-in-review

Weird, I hit this exact error 2 weeks ago

Isn't it bad form to post email correspondence like this? Will this make founders uncomfortable communicating with you in the future?

"90% of the world is using Excel and similar tools to analyze and visualize their data." These types of statements always prompt me to ask "what is the specific problem you are try…

If anyone has topics they'd like to hear more about in the talk, post them here and I'll try to cover them.

Just to clarify, you have from Friday 11/11 until Monday 11/14 to submit an app (3 days). It doesn't have to use LinkedIn data or APIs, anything that helps veterans is fair game. T…

Here's a link to a few infochimps veterans datasets: http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-benefits-expendi... http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/national-defense-outlays-...…

Blog post explaining more here: http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/11/07/veterans/ Stay tuned for more links to datasets, APIS, etc.

+1 for Driven Developer-Driven Development. This works with small teams where each contributor has a solid track record, or with a group that has worked well together in the past. …

Free sodas freshman year. Chem lab + NaCl + soda machine + Russian roomate.

Agreed "Create more value than you capture" (Tim O'Reilly) is the thing to strive for

There is a "message" button on each github user page. I just sent this to a few people (including someone who had forked one of my projects and added their S3 keys to a config file…

Glad Russell wrote this up, he has been doing some cool things with Pig, Voldemort, & Ruby lately.

LinkedIn - Mountain View, CA I'm hiring a team to help develop a new user-facing Data Product built on top of LinkedIn's massive dataset of 65 million member profiles, connection g…

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To get the spirit of many of these techniques with practical examples in python using numpy/scipy check out the book "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" by Stephen Marsl…

Nice lists, I often recommend these for people who want an introduction to the field: "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis" by John A. Rice "All of Statistics: A Concise Cour…

Full comment (in case link no longer works): "Their children were twin girls. Born over one year ago. Severely premature: 24 weeks gestation. Severely disabled. Require 24-hour nur…

The Analytics Engineering team at LinkedIn is looking for engineers to work on Hadoop, Project Voldemort, and the A/B Platform: http://bit.ly/hadoop-linkedin

The real world Lisp/Clojure + Hadoop approach is definitely fun to hear about. Also interesting to see a YCombinator team with 8+ people including a domain expert. Mashing up 4+ me…