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Alex Holmes

Personal blog · grepalex.comprogrammingdata

Alex Holmes's personal blog at grepalex.com covers programming and data. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a list of data science blogs and newsletters in an HN thread on what to read to become a data scientist. The linked posts are about data science and big data, but the comment does not discuss the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ramblings of a distributed computing programmer

What Hacker News says?

  1. Subscribe to Data Science Weekly: http://www.datascienceweekly.org/ http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/ http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/category/data-science/ http://www.hilarymason.com/ http://mathbabe.org/ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://blog.kaggle.com/ http://grepalex.com/ http://pulseblog.emc.com/category/big-data/ http://radar.oreilly.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ http://oreilly.com/data/newsletter.h…

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    on “Ask HN: What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?”
  2. Submitted Lexicographically sorting large files in Linux as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Understanding how Parquet integrates with Avro, Thrift and Protocol Buffers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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