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Long Tail – overstated
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A weblog by cameron marlow. Tag Archives: Long Tail. Venturing to the tail. September 25, 2009. It’s now second nature to think that the top 1% of media account for an overwhelming percentage of overall sales. But how many people actually consume content from the more obscure parts of Netflix’s catalog? Sharad and Co. at Yahoo! Research just released the results of some research looking at how users fit into long-tail distributions of content. 8220;85% of Netflix users and 95% of Yahoo! Theme: Mog by hndr.
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Venturing to the tail – overstated
http://overstated.net/2009/09/25/venturing-to-the-tail
A weblog by cameron marlow. Teaching data science →. Venturing to the tail. September 25, 2009. It’s now second nature to think that the top 1% of media account for an overwhelming percentage of overall sales. But how many people actually consume content from the more obscure parts of Netflix’s catalog? Sharad and Co. at Yahoo! Research just released the results of some research looking at how users fit into long-tail distributions of content. 8220;85% of Netflix users and 95% of Yahoo! One thought on &l...
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ethnicity – overstated
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A weblog by cameron marlow. How Diverse is Facebook? December 16, 2009. In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind, the Facebook Data team recently sought to answer the question, “How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook? The US. Census Bureau’s Genealogy Project. Publishes a data set containing the frequency of popular surnam...
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statistics – overstated
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A weblog by cameron marlow. November 3, 2009. The baby name blog has a great post about how some names seem to become more female over time. It would appear from recent years that many names are becoming increasingly androgynous, and parents are afraid: what if my boy’s name becomes girlish? The author posits that one could surmise, this is it,. Will boys eventually find themselves stranded on a tiny name island with nothing but kingly classics and absurdly macho inventions to choose from?
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Androgenization of Cameron – overstated
http://overstated.net/2009/11/03/androgenization-of-cameron
A weblog by cameron marlow. How Diverse is Facebook? November 3, 2009. The baby name blog has a great post about how some names seem to become more female over time. It would appear from recent years that many names are becoming increasingly androgynous, and parents are afraid: what if my boy’s name becomes girlish? The author posits that one could surmise, this is it,. Don’t panic yet, parents of boys. There are reasons to think that this crop may be different. N, stop dissin’ me.”. November 9, 2009 at ...
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Teaching data science – overstated
http://overstated.net/2009/10/14/teaching-data-science
A weblog by cameron marlow. Venturing to the tail. Youtube Epidemiology Interface →. October 14, 2009. The New York Times had a piece over the weekend discussing the how computer science curricula are limited in their capacity to teach distributed computation and data mining. Or a similar company partner with a hardware provider to make clusters affordable and easy to configure, while data scientists can make sure that they come pre-installed with some interesting data (Wikipedia, Twitter, etc.)....Youtu...
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race – overstated
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A weblog by cameron marlow. How Diverse is Facebook? December 16, 2009. In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind, the Facebook Data team recently sought to answer the question, “How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook? The US. Census Bureau’s Genealogy Project. Publishes a data set containing the frequency of popular surnam...
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Introducing Facebook Fellowships – overstated
http://overstated.net/2010/01/08/introducing-facebook-fellowships
A weblog by cameron marlow. How Diverse is Facebook? How voters turned out on Facebook →. January 8, 2010. Today I’m happy to announce that Facebook will be offering fellowships. To support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year. The program will provide tuition, stipend and other perks to lucky students whose applications are chosen. Lots more details can be found on the Facebook Fellowship page. Auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions. If you or any Ph...
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Google underscores filenames – overstated
http://overstated.net/2003/08/12/google-underscores-filenames
A weblog by cameron marlow. The medieval church, heresy and memes. Low threshold links →. August 12, 2003. Google’s ranking algorithm takes into account much more than just the infamous PageRank. In fact, they claim to use over 100 factors. In determining the order of results returned for each query made. The specific features and weightings that go into this calculation are the special sauce that makes Google so wonderful. Was it because of a commercial interest in herpes treatment? At first I assumed t...
