I noticed if you run a business, building a personal brand can be powerful (i.e I make awesome cakes and then people see them and come and buy them), however outside of that and being a public commentator, it's a bit pointless.
They banned me after migrating an email list over because they said I couldn't confirm how I got the emails. It was weird because the 80 emails were newsletter sign-ups from my website. After that happened I never went back.
The same Wikipedia article that mentions a Wired article of potential conflict of interest when working for the US goverment and awarding a contract for a company she owned stock in. Totally sounds like a non-corrupt human.
I understand what you are saying to a degree, however I've had more success than many colleagues due to me spending time every day to improve myself (usually technically).
What you are saying is like saying some people are thin due to genetics, which can be true, but also many people are thin because they workout.
Rvest is for webscrapping newbs. A more seasoned R person would still use PhantomJS and RSelenium as it actually collects all the page's information but Rvest only collections a portion of it. Try it on washingtonpost.com and you will see.
I just saw this the other day! This wrapper around Pandoc to make life our lifes easier (tidyr)? I just went through the process of making a markdown file to an epub before I saw this, wish I saw this earlier.
Anyone think we will get something that is happening in AdTech? There are several ad exchanges and there is 'header bidding' technology which let's you hit all the exchanges at once for the bets price. Anyone know if this is already occurring in stock exchanges?
This article is spot on. 'In the Plex' constantly referred to Google's search being strong because it had such rich search data and not because of predictive algorithms. They used the experience of what other people searched to determine what was best to show
While I think it'd be nice to be referenced as inspiration, what Max did was probably done before and not that novel. These other authors added actual analysis to the data compared to just plotting it.
I've been a fan of Krebs for a while. He get's a lot of access and information from other hackers (that were pissed at another hacker) or security analysts. Gotta give him props though, he taught himself a lot, including learning Russian
In the Plex had an interesting section where they highlighted that Baidu vs Google in China. The interesting piece was Google was better in every way for search engine relevance except for recent events or trending topics in terms of relevance for that day. Google eventually fixed that.
My point is, to beat Google it may be better to own niche search topics or elements of search. I remember when Bing tried the aesthetics way for a while there. I'd argue in terms of value, Amazon may be the closest competitor in search to Google. Mainly because Amazon's search data is extremely valuable as these are people set on buying things.
I'm a supporter of open source. I think this project has a lot of potential benefits for publishers and ad tech in general. Interesting to see how DSPs react.
Agreed on RStudio being a factor. For me its all about packages and RStudio. I totally believe some other languages are better in general (Python), but RStudio makes a difference at work. As I can quickly show co-workers charts, data views and Shiny Apps.