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I remember Digg Labs produced some really cool animated real-time visualisations of stories on the site. A little Googling suggests that they were collaboratio

I remember Digg Labs produced some really cool animated real-time visualisations of stories on the site. A little Googling suggests that they were collaborations. But I wonder if the data scientists were also involved http://v1.stamen.com/clients/digg.html http://v1.stamen.com/clients/digg.html http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=585 http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=585

synack 7y ago
No, the Stamen work happened before we had any data scientists on payroll. Edit: We did have an R&D team that did things that might today be considered data science, but at the time they were mostly focused on documenting and optimizing the Digg "algorithm"