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by fhoffa 7y ago
Wikipedia is drowning in money? Their audited financials: - Cash in hand: $100m, Annual expenses: $91m - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim... Internet archive: - Net assets: $2
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by fhoffa 7y ago
6 million pages! A quick look at their distribution: 3.6M of these pages got less than 10 views during December. 4.3M pages got less than 100 views each. 2.3M got less than 1000 views. That's the long tail. On the other side 680K pages
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Interactive: Wikipedia Pages(medium.com)
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“OK Boomer” Escalated Quickly – A Reddit+BigQuery Report(medium.com)
2 points by fhoffa 7y ago|1 comments
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by fhoffa 7y ago
Check their homepage (just click on the link above). The project itself gives Linus the spotlight.
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by fhoffa 7y ago
Quoting their front page: > In fall of 2011, when a forced lull in kernel development gave him a chance to start a new project, Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided to tackle his frustration with the lack of decent divelog software on Li
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by fhoffa 7y ago
I post to Medium for the same reason I post videos to Youtube: Platform + audience. Turns out my audience would rather have me post on Medium than on my personal blog: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444875
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by fhoffa 7y ago
My company blog first - yes! Except that I can go from idea to post in 12 hours with Medium, and that's not at all the experience for the official posts when multiple teams want to chime in...
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by fhoffa 7y ago
The last sentence says "Subscribe now for a free 30-day trial of the new Praxis blog" - so I guess that's what this one is about.
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by fhoffa 7y ago
I've been looking for Medium alternatives, but my audience wants me to continue on it. 123 votes to where should I publish my posts: - 34% Medium - 9% Dev.to - 45% My company's official blog - 12% LinkedIn, my domain, ??? This tel
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by fhoffa 7y ago
$2.6b, all cash. - https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0606/
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by fhoffa 7y ago
At Next 2018 we had Jordan Tigani (BigQuery Director at Google) and lloyd tabb (Founder of Looker) on stage together. Maybe a sign of things to come: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gYUGv_omJA
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by fhoffa 7y ago
Oops, edited for clarity/intentions to "closer to HN".
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by fhoffa 7y ago
Ok, I see. Just for fun: - In Silicon Valley... Magic Johnson has more google searches than Larry Page. - In India... Larry Page has more google searches than Magic Johnson. - https://imgur.com/a/KwQ5wJt Just checking
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by fhoffa 7y ago
Not really. This is people looking at Wikipedia. Guess: Who's the Alan with the most pageviews in Wikipedia? Who's the Steve? I left the answers here: - https://medium.com/towards-data-science/bigquery-without
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Uber datasets in BigQuery: Driving times around SF (and your city too)
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Don't miss the video on how Emma did this: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEvTcXF-4Q (length 3:14)
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Hi, Felipe Hoffa at Google here. We're aware the dataset hasn't been updated since a month ago, and we are working to fix it. You can track the issue here: - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/127132286 I
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The real top Stack Overflow Questions(towardsdatascience.com)
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by fhoffa 8y ago
you missed this part "and our flexible compute Hadoop clusters"
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by fhoffa 8y ago
From the Twitter Hadoop to GCP talk that Boulos linked: - >500k cores - >300PB storage - >12,500 cluster size - >1T messages per day And there's also this other talk, "How Twitter Migrated its On-Prem Analytics to Goo
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When Will Stack Overflow Reply: How to Predict with BigQuery(medium.com)
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by fhoffa 8y ago
With Stack Overflow most people measure number of new questions - but that's a partial measure that can lead to wrong conclusions. How to measure number of pageviews instead? I have a solution! - https://towardsdatascience.
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Related: I wrote this post showing the number of stars that GitHub projects get after being featured on the HN front page: - https://medium.com/google-cloud/big-data-stories-in-seconds-...
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Connecting Africa: Nomanini, GCP, and BigQuery(medium.com)
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Can you share a picture of your dog? Disclosure: I do work for Google Cloud, but all I'm here for is to see if that dog does look like a cat.
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by fhoffa 8y ago
And with the just announced clustering now you get even better costs and performance. Disclosure: I'm https://twitter.com/felipehoffa and I work for Google Cloud. And I'm really excited to reprocess all public tab
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by fhoffa 8y ago
I really enjoyed this slide from the BuzzFeed talk "Hundreds of terabytes across 300+ tables, 100K+ queries a day" on BigQuery. I quoted the reddit talk on the thread above/below :).
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Can you post on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-bigquery ? I haven't heard about this, but if you give the community good specifics, we'll work on it.
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Let's say you are Twitter, Reddit, or the CTO of your current company. How do you choose your next analytical platform: a) Do you look at the benchmarks that each company produces, and choose the one that publishes the numbers that mak

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