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The Practical Quant
Personal blog · practicalquant.blogspot.comdataprogramming
The Practical Quant is a personal blog at practicalquant.blogspot.com about data and programming. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-21
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Mining Time-series with Trillions of Points: Dynamic Time Warping at scale as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google uses more than 39,000 servers to process roughly an exabyte per month as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted You know there's a Tech Bubble as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How my Data Toolset evolved in 2012: scale/speed/unlocking new data types as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large-scale Named Entity Recognition in the Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Factoids from Twitter's Engineering Open House as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2010 Census: Ethnic & Racial breakdown within the major Metro Areas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Nurture Data Scientists as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No single DBMS will meet all your needs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In one chart: 2012 Revenue of Big Data (startup) companies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A promising fresh take on Automatic Text Summarization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Learning Oral Traditions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real-time Analytics: Hokusai adds a temporal component to Count-Min Sketch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond bag-of-words: The importance of markup & metadata in Text Mining as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data informed, not Data driven: On Elite Schools, and Soft vs. Hard Skills as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter's Front-end Summit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proposed U.S. Tax Hikes in a few charts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popular Links on Twitter during Obama Jobs Speech & Republican Debate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebranding Data Scientists as Data Alchemists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hedge Fund performance summary - January/2011 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted By the Numbers: 2010 Web 2.0 Summit (a factoid filled post) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some thoughts on (natural language) search as a story · 1 points
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