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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.

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24mentions?
5HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Mining Time-series with Trillions of Points: Dynamic Time Warping at scale as a story · 80 points

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  2. Submitted Google uses more than 39,000 servers to process roughly an exabyte per month as a story · 9 points

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  3. Submitted You know there's a Tech Bubble as a story · 8 points

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  4. Submitted How my Data Toolset evolved in 2012: scale/speed/unlocking new data types as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted Large-scale Named Entity Recognition in the Cloud as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Factoids from Twitter's Engineering Open House as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted 2010 Census: Ethnic & Racial breakdown within the major Metro Areas as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted How to Nurture Data Scientists as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted No single DBMS will meet all your needs as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted In one chart: 2012 Revenue of Big Data (startup) companies as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted A promising fresh take on Automatic Text Summarization as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Deep Learning Oral Traditions as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Real-time Analytics: Hokusai adds a temporal component to Count-Min Sketch as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Beyond bag-of-words: The importance of markup & metadata in Text Mining as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Data informed, not Data driven: On Elite Schools, and Soft vs. Hard Skills as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Twitter's Front-end Summit as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Proposed U.S. Tax Hikes in a few charts as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Popular Links on Twitter during Obama Jobs Speech & Republican Debate as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Rebranding Data Scientists as Data Alchemists as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Hedge Fund performance summary - January/2011 as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted A quick overview of the App Economy, using data from the iTunes app store as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted By the Numbers: 2010 Web 2.0 Summit (a factoid filled post) as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Some thoughts on (natural language) search as a story · 1 points

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