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I don’t want you to be happy 27 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
I was giving unwanted advice to my friend the other day, complaining to him about how he’s this absolutely fantastic, wonderful young person – all true – and he’s wasting his time feeling like he’s wa...
College ranking models 26 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
Last week Obama began to making threats regarding a new college ranking system and its connection to federal funding. Here’s an excerpt of what he was talking about, from this WSJ article: The presid...
Ask Aunt Pythia 24 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Peoples!! Peoples!! I know you came for Aunt Pythia (thank you very much!) but today I must insist that, first, you go read my new hero’s advice column, Dear Miss Disruption, who has been quite the t...
Don’t Fly During Ramadan 23 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
Crossposted from /var/null, a blog written by Aditya Mukerjee. Aditya graduated from Columbia with a degree in CS and statistics, was a hackNY Fellow, worked in data at OkCupid, and on the server team...
Staples.com rips off poor people; let’s take control of our online personas 22 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
You’ve probably heard rumors about this here and there, but the Wall Street Journal convincingly reported yesterday that websites charge certain people more for the exact thing. Specifically, poor pe...
You people freaking rock: Occupy Finance officially funded 21 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Yesterday I told people about the book my Occupy group is coming out with. I said I needed $350 to cover the printing costs, and I asked for small donations. Anything beyond that means more books get ...
Occupy Finance, the book: announcement and fundraising (#OWS) 20 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Members of the Alt Banking Occupy group have been hard at work recently writing a book which we call Occupy Finance. Our blog for the book is here. It’s a work in progress but we’re planning to give a...
When big data goes bad in a totally predictable way 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Three quick examples this morning in the I-told-you-so category. I’d love to hear Kenneth Neil Cukier explain how “objective” data science is when confronted with this stuff. 1. When an unemployed bl...
Ask Aunt Pythia 17 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
You know how you sometimes wake up and just feel like the luckiest person in the world? With the awesomest friends and family? And you just wanna go hug everything and everyone? That is where Aunt Py...
What’s the difference between big data and business analytics? 16 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
I offend people daily. People tell me they do “big data” and that they’ve been doing big data for years. Their argument is that they’re doing business analytics on a larger and larger scale, so surely...
