February 2012
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Strata Conference
I’ll be here at the strata conference all week. If you’re intersted in talking about data projects at tumblr, come say hello! Hit me up on twitter @adamlaiacano.
And, of course, we’re hiring engineers and data scientists.
Raw Data: How Registration Affects Comments
motherjones:
A few weeks ago Mother Jones started requiring registration with email verification for commenters. So how has that worked out? Here are the basic stats from our tech wizards:
22% decrease in total comments
22% increase in Twitter logins
257% increase in Facebook logins
45% decrease in comments our moderators decided to delete
And anecdotally, the comments seem much more...
The Big Data Evolution: The Creep Factor →
bigdataathawkeye:
-Why Some Companies Get It, and Others Don’t
if my pharmacy used my prescription records to send me targeted catalogs, I would be upset because they have violated a confidence I had in them. However, if they used that same information to warn me of possible drug interactions, or suggest a generic product during a store visit, I would be very grateful.
This is a great little...
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WatchThe latest installment of the Everything Is A Remix series is out.
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Finding an optimal seating chart for a wedding →
This is such a great optimization problem. I wonder what the best way to fill in the relation matrix. Besides setting a few key entries to the maximum value as they did in the paper (couples, immediate family of the couple being married, etc), I’m guessing some good features would be:
Number of overlapping facebook friends.
Number of group emails that the attendees appear on.
Total rounds...
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CONE Welder: Collaborative Observatory for Natural... →
This could be the basis of a really fun image recognition project.
With over 38,849 bird photos this collection can serve as a training set for visual bird detection and image processing research.
Via @siah
High Scalability: Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion... →
buzz:
If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in keeping Tumblr humming along, here’s a great overview courtesy of Blake Matheney.
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