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by adw 16y ago
It's controversial in the UK too. My colleague, Simon (who used to be the FT's stats editor), writes about it on our data blog: http://byline.timetric.com/2011/02/14/uk-inflation-bad-decis... (which has subsequently been picked up by a co
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by adw 16y ago
In part, this is what we're working on solving at Timetric; the skills gap between people who understand the physical nature of data and people who have the domain knowledge to tell you what it means.
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by adw 16y ago
I've made a couple of records entirely in Reason, so I've got a fair amount of experience with it. There's a point where minimalism is as much a fetish as draping everything in ornate gewgaws, I think.
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http://timetric.com/dataset/exchange_rates_forex_europe/ for the exchange-rate data, at least.
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Reason is fantastic . It's actually a fantastically intuitive interface for its target market, and what's more, it's psychologically effective. The skeumorphism in Reason is so over-the-top – there's a physics engine in there! - that it
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by adw 16y ago
You can't outsource and offshore sales.
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What makes a dating site work is having people who are going to chime with each other; you don't need mass-market hegemony. So, what you want is demographic similarity but little social intermixing – people drawn from similar, geographica
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Where are all the London hackers working on startups? Places like TechHub and White Bear Yard, mostly. Working. (Speaking of which, nearly everyone I know – including us – is hiring.)
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"The Startup Wars" is pretty excellent.
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We've got quite a lot of public economic data: http://timetric.com/ . If you're up to something in the economic data space we'd love to talk. Happy to take this to email (andrew@timetric.com) if anyone's interested.
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FFFFOUND too.
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Which is why my the department I'm an alumnus of called it Earth Science_s_ - http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ - which is fine: it's a coalition of mineralogy, mineral physics, petrology, paeleontology, geophysics and rheology...
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by adw 16y ago
Some of the big banks may still run IE6 (certainly BoA/Merrill Lynch still did about a year ago).
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Congratulations to Movity! I was fortunate enough to get to meet them when I was in San Francisco this summer; very impressive stuff, great guys.
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(By the way, you're replying to one - pclark is one of the founders of Readness/Broadersheet). News is just a tremendously hard market. My suspicion, and I have scar tissue to back this up, is that it's a trap. It's one of those things ever
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by adw 16y ago
If you're good at data and visualization, and you've got a creative streak, the world is yours . The entire future information economy sits right at the intersection of art, design and heavyweight statistics. (Don't drop your stats and Eng
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3) http://weatherbill.com/ (army of ex-Googlers, no direct business relationship but we have investors in common)
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This reminds me a little of the combinatorial game theory game done on Go endgames: fascinating but impractical! There are basically three major chesses; western, Xiangqi and Shogi, and three popularish Western variants (Chess960, suicide a
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First is Scotch chess.
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UK Government open data comes of age(byline.timetric.com)
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Me three. I'm not as high-achieving as you guys, but I have an okay sheaf of academic qualifications (up to PhD) which to this day I'm absolutely convinced I don't deserve. It's not rare at all among people I know, too, most of whom are w
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by adw 16y ago
The only time I've been through one (I'm a UK citizen) has been on a US domestic flight: Reagan, DC to Newark.
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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.
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Which is why we use Python. We're a web app (Django) doing big data aggregation/processing (Numpy).
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Pretty sure we have a fair amount of these: http://timetric.com Ping us an email if there's things we can help you out with.
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It's about empathy. Works both ways, too. If you don't know enough finance to understand a cashflow model or enough about writing to appreciate how to craft a pitch (or put together an effective landing page - whichever matters for your bus
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And no-one ever mentions them, but Markit Group and a host of other financial technology plays. And hedge funds. Lots of hedge funds.
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by adw 16y ago
Just another data point, but my experience and tptacek's line up pretty much exactly. None of our first three hires came through job ads. One developer, one product person, one bizdev person (we're peculiarly partnership-heavy and the found
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Hello - Virgin? Body Shop? ( Tech startups, maybe. Even there our household names – PartyGaming say – are often illegal in America.)
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I was on Usenet enough early enough to get the four-lines religion, and that's enough to get six different ways to contact me in. (I've elided bits here, not because it's any type of secret - I'm not exactly hard to find - but rather becaus

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