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1. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2012 11:15:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Fitting portrayal for the preparation Wall Street takes in general to avoid disaster.
   
   This was my favorite pic from the pre-Sandy lot.

   

   
2. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2012 11:05:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Some highlights from my first trip to London:
   
   Favorite museum: National Portrait Gallery
   Favorite fish & chips: Geales
   Favorite coffee shop: Store Street Espresso

   

   
3. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2012 01:22:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Kindle Fire users often ask me for the Screen Filter APK, since they don't have the normal Market app. Here's a link to the APK for you (thanks to Drive publishing). Should work for rooted Android and CyanogenMod as well. As of 12/14/2012 this is version 1.2.1, which includes compatibility for Jellybean 4.2 (finally!). I'll update the file in-place. It's signed, but for your safety: Certificate…
4. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 04:12:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   This post from HBR in August called Learn More By Asking Fewer Questions resonates with me, given our work on Google Surveys: "What the smartest innovators and smartest marketers I know have in common is not asking a lot of questions but making sure the most important questions get asked and answered. By definition, the more questions asked, the less important any single question seems. Customers…
5. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 01:18:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Probably too many cohort states on this one
   

   

   
6. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2012 00:05:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Distillation: Small Data is the Purpose of Big Data I was explaining to someone this weekend how most of the work I do these days with "big data" is to extract "small data" that I can reasonably visualize or interact with. This is how I try to make sense of loads of information. The process is called distillation. In general "big data" is a pain in the ass. Way too many small records sitting ar…
7. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2012 20:38:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Why cohort analysis? (from Cohort Visualizer, released today) A cohort is a group of people who share a common characteristic or experience within a defined period (Wikipedia). It's used a lot in health to track how different groups of patients respond to disease and medication. It can be used in business to track progress in the funnel. For software and websites, cohorts are useful because th…
8. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2012 15:09:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Cohort Visualizer Today I've released Cohort Visualizer, a handy tool for browsing cohort datasets. This came out of a bunch of work I did recently for doing cohort analysis with mapreduce. Spreadsheets got me pretty far with visualizing this data, but I kept finding myself doing a pattern of sub-filtering and regrouping. This is my attempt to make that workflow easier. The whole project is ope…
9. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2012 13:22:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Good article about Harper, OFA, and Narwhal. I had a chance to volunteer with these folks this summer and it was a blast. Some highlights: Narwhal unified what Obama for America knew about voters, canvassers, event-goers, and phone-bankers, and it did it in real time. ... When Obama campaign chief Jim Messina signed off on hiring Reed, he told him, "Welcome to the team. Don't fuck it up." As …
10. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2012 19:39:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Yesterday's first: Friends made fun of me for having a physical book. Blah-- I don't like ebooks. Support your local book store!

    

    
11. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2012 01:06:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    In print
    

    

    
12. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 10-Nov-2012 23:45:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    "Perhaps it won’t be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling."
    
    - Nate Silver

    

    
13. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 09-Nov-2012 11:32:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Really? See also: "Big Fucking Surprise: A Lot Of People Tweeted About The Presidential Debate"
    

    

    
14. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 09-Nov-2012 01:13:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Reviewed by Pew Research Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a post-election reaction piece with data collected via Google Consumer Surveys. Here are the source survey reports (linked in the PDF version). This is a huge deal. It's not just that the infographic is cool: Or that the result confirms our instincts: The reaction to the election was divided along partisan lines. Fully 90% o…
15. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 09-Nov-2012 00:12:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Finally reached the point where further analyzing a dataset leads to more questions than answers. Info branching factor > 1

    

    
16. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 07-Nov-2012 00:24:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Relieved~

    

    
17. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2012 00:49:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Over-specialization is the curse of our profession I'm sick of the distinction between backend and frontend engineers. The backend engineers think they're hot shit because they solve the big problems. They know how to scale. They look down on frontend engineers who are only solving trivial problems. Backend engineers build the real things. They don't have time to learn about CSS or a wretched l…
18. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 05-Nov-2012 19:45:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Mission Bikes for Obama!
    

    

    
19. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2012 20:04:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    My thirst for Watermelon beer is proportional to SF sunshine (seasonally adjusted).

    

    
20. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2012 15:14:00 EDT Brett Slatkin

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    "What does s/ mean?" "It's unix for replace x with y, so s/x/y/"

    

    

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