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blog.locu.com is the company blog at blog.locu.com, writing about data and startups. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

8mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Company blog from Locu, a local business data startup. The linked post is "The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs." The comment is a Locu employee announcing the post reached the front page.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I work at Locu over here - I was going to tell Adam his writeup made the front page so he could respond (I don't think he was expecting this), but I think he's asleep on the East Coast, so I'll post this before this falls off the front page. Hacker News is not the target audience of our merchant-facing product, but it is certainly the target audience of our technology, such as our local business API at dev.locu.com…

    Comment linking /post/36602971835/7-reasons-to-nominate-locu-for-crunchies-best

    on “The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs”
  2. Submitted Visualizing the relationship between hipsters and PBR as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Burgernomics 101: Crunching the data on Burgers and Obesity as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted DJOAuth2: An OAuth 2.0 Server Implementation for Django as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Locu's crowdsourced task decomposition process works as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Human Side of Crowdsourcing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 5 Suggestions For Data Teams as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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