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Because what the world needs now is another armchair economist

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CEO to the Head of Analytics the night before a board meeting: “Hey u up?”


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After 5 years, I've updated "Rappers sorted by size of their vocabulary." There's 75 new artists, DMX is no longer in last place, and an additional chart by era. pudding.cool/projects/vocab…

matthew_daniels's tweet image. After 5 years, I've updated "Rappers sorted by size of their vocabulary." There's 75 new artists, DMX is no longer in last place, and an additional chart by era. pudding.cool/projects/vocab…
matthew_daniels's tweet image. After 5 years, I've updated "Rappers sorted by size of their vocabulary." There's 75 new artists, DMX is no longer in last place, and an additional chart by era. pudding.cool/projects/vocab…

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Another busy news day. Aren't they all? But sometimes I turn if off. Because it's a warm summer evening? Because I'd rather watch a movie with my wife? Or a ballgame? Because I know it will be there tomorrow morning? It's all of dire importance, but so are other elements of life.


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“No one ever made a decision based on a number. They need a story.” Danny Kahneman


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Honestly. If CEOs knew how to watch TED Talks, this whole conference could be edited back to one afternoon.


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No country for old men

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“Correlation implies causation,” the dean whispered as he handed me my PhD. “But then why-” “Because if they knew, they wouldn’t need us.” (used courtesy of @drob)


I was a teenage anarchist, looking for a revolution. I had the style, I had the ambition. I read all the authors, I knew the right slogans... and now NYT will help you find the outfit - nytimes.com/2017/11/29/sty…


Good job, Andrew (and a great read)

I won the @StackMagazines independent magazine award for Best Original Non-Fiction last night in London! Thanks to @JaserNazir, Nabil, Yelmaz and Tarek for sharing their story, @rouleurmagazine and my editor @Andymcgra for believing in it, and Timm Koelln for his amazing photos.

spoke32's tweet image. I won the @StackMagazines independent magazine award for Best Original Non-Fiction last night in London! Thanks to @JaserNazir, Nabil, Yelmaz and Tarek for sharing their story, @rouleurmagazine and my editor @Andymcgra for believing in it, and Timm Koelln for his amazing photos.
spoke32's tweet image. I won the @StackMagazines independent magazine award for Best Original Non-Fiction last night in London! Thanks to @JaserNazir, Nabil, Yelmaz and Tarek for sharing their story, @rouleurmagazine and my editor @Andymcgra for believing in it, and Timm Koelln for his amazing photos.
spoke32's tweet image. I won the @StackMagazines independent magazine award for Best Original Non-Fiction last night in London! Thanks to @JaserNazir, Nabil, Yelmaz and Tarek for sharing their story, @rouleurmagazine and my editor @Andymcgra for believing in it, and Timm Koelln for his amazing photos.


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Autoplay videos are a scourge of the first world.


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NET CASH FLOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAVING A DOPE APARTMENT OR HOUSE DONT @ ME


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My current hypothesis is that a lot of statistical methodology questions are actually epistemology questions and epistemology is hard.


We apologize again for the fault in our metrics. Those responsible have been sacked, (and so on...) - youtu.be/SII-jhEd-a0?t=…

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Do they keep forgetting to carry the one? At what point do the corrections to a correction become suspect?



Another reason to keep those old (pre Qatar) Barcelona jerseys

Paying to wear an airlines ad is the equivalent of negative interest rates. But commonplace.

EmanuelDerman's tweet image. Paying to wear an airlines ad is the equivalent of negative interest rates. But commonplace.


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It’s never not a good time for this GIF:


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Appropriately vicious commentary by @jasondashbailey on the obvious music in film right now. flavorwire.com/587300/war-dog…

mattzollerseitz's tweet image. Appropriately vicious commentary by @jasondashbailey on the obvious music in film right now. flavorwire.com/587300/war-dog…

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.@kwbroman's colleague was "sorry you did all that work on incomplete dataset"- reproducibility for the win #JSM2016

drob's tweet image. .@kwbroman's colleague was "sorry you did all that work on incomplete dataset"- reproducibility for the win #JSM2016

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