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Jason Davis's personal blog at drjasondavis.com covers data and programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2013

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Linked on HN as a related piece on A/B testing selection problems. One comment points to the author's post on eight ways A/B tests get misread, and the commenter says their team ran many bad tests at Etsy.

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.

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  1. Thanks Dan. I actually wrote a piece a couple years back about this as well: http://drjasondavis.com/blog/2013/09/12/eight-ways-youve-mis... Can't tell you how many bad a/b tests we ran at Etsy until we figured things out ;)

    Comment linking /blog/2013/09/12/eight-ways-youve-misconfigured-your-ab-test

    on “The Imperfect World of A/B Testing Selection”
  2. Submitted A Mixpanel Data Exporter as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Coding in the Rain as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Eight ways you've misconfigured your A/B test as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Eight Ways You've Misconfigured Your A/B Test as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Life of a Last Minute Restaurant Reservation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted NYC Dining: The Cost of a "B" as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Etsy: The Data Behind the Crafts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Your first A/B tests: A guide for noobs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A Corollary to experimentcalculator.com, With Examples as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Lending Club Loan Analysis: Making Money with Logistic Regression as a story · 1 points

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