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Drew Conway
Personal blog · drewconway.com/ziadataprogramming
Drew Conway's personal blog at drewconway.com covers data and programming. Since 2009, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Revisiting “Ranking the popularity of programming languages”: creating tiers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Drew Conway's posts, mainly his data science Venn diagram, which comments cite in discussions of the 'danger zone'. Other links cite his posts on programming language popularity and Wikileaks data analysis in R.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Drew Conway personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Revisiting “Ranking the popularity of programming languages”: creating tiers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-10-04
- The Data Science Venn Diagram (2010)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16
- The Data Science Venn Diagram2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-30
- Python Packages for Social Scientists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-30
What Hacker News says?
The classic venn diagram of data science is still helpful: http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-di... This article reads like a way to find yourself in the danger zone.
Comment linking /zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram
on “How to learn data science”Submitted Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents as a story · 101 points
HN discussionThere's lots of measures: Indeed job listings, google searches, mailing list volume; tiobe tries to incorporate a few. http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2892 http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/berkeley-progra...
Comment linking /zia/?p=2892
on “Hello Haskell, Goodbye Scala”Submitted Why I will not analyze the new WikiLeaks data as a story · 90 points
HN discussionSet up a Linux computer (Ubuntu Linux is the easiest to set up), and spend the summer learning to program in Python. Python is easy to learn (not much syntax), easy to read (explicit vs implicit), has a big ecosystem (more packages/libraries), is taught at universities so it's easy to find good programmers to help, and is used by many large websites/companies so it's a good language to know. Here are some of the bes…
Comment linking /zia/?p=204
on “Ask HN: I want to learn how to code. Can anyone tell me how to start learning?”Submitted Python Packages for Social Scientists as a story · 60 points
HN discussion- nl · 2015-09-04
It is almost the perfect example of the "Danger Zone" in http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-di...
Comment linking /zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram
on “Show HN: Neural network that impersonates writers” Submitted Benford's Law tests on Wikileaks data as a story · 30 points
HN discussion- zt · 2012-10-29
"We believe that the bar for training and hiring of front end JavaScript developers is even more attainable, and that is why we have chosen to be the first, and as of now, the only training program specifically for that market." You know what I want--a twelve week, intense course on scientific computing in something like Python--for people who already know some core scientific subject and statistics. If we took http…
Comment linking /zia/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Data_Science_VD.png
on “ What did you cover in your undergrad CS degree?” Submitted Running Large Graph Algorithms as a story · 30 points
HN discussionHere is the original article by Drew Conway: http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2226
Comment linking /zia/?p=2226
on “Analyzing the Wikileaks Afghanistan data with R”Submitted Social Network Analysis in R as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using OpenCV To Determine Skin Tone Diversity Of Time Magazine Covers as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted What countries are ‘pulling their weight’ for Haiti? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Venture Capital Co-investment Networks as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing Data with R and ggplot2 (Video) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a better word cloud as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where to draw the line on 'data science'? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swallowing the academic "red pill" as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Data Science Venn Diagram as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting “Ranking the popularity of programming languages”: creating tiers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to: Use Python to Solve Optimization Problems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The data science Venn diagram as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing the Structure of Venture Capital Co-Investments as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data ownership, social science, and Twitter's folly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A year of Chicago’s crime, in 30 seconds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should researchers share their "code-in-progress" online? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to blog your engagement if you're a data geek as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democracy, freedom of the press, and government data requests to Google as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How misinformed are Tea Party protesters about tax policy: a simulation as a story · 3 points
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