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Personal blog · onlinelabor.blogspot.comeconomicsdata

Online Labor is a personal blog at onlinelabor.blogspot.com about economics and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2012

Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online.

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  1. Re: oDesk data - what do you want to know? I regular post data from oDesk on my own blog (I work at oDesk w/ these folks: https://www.odesk.com/info/l/research/ ): http://onlinelabor.blogspot.com/ . And there's the "oConomy": https://www.odesk.com/oconomy/ There's also lots of info available via the API.

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  2. Submitted High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer as a story · 82 points

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  3. Submitted It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really simple as a story · 63 points

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  4. Submitted Writing Smell Detector (WSD) - a tool for finding problematic writing as a story · 34 points

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  5. Submitted The Innovation of StackOverflow as a story · 9 points

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  6. Submitted Job titles & wages on oDesk as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Indian blackouts & oDesk as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted High-wage skills on oDesk (or why non-lawyers might want to learn Clojure) as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Workers as bundled goods as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Digitization of the supply side of the labor market as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Why aren't we all freelancers? as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Digitization of the supply side of the labor market as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted Resources for online social science as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Using networkx to make a graph of Google auto-suggest stereotypes about animals as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Should online labor markets impose a minimum wage? as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Some light data munging with R (with an application to ranking NFL Teams) as a story · 1 points

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