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Affinity and Herding Determine the Effectiveness of Social Media Advertising, by Anand

Here�s the key observation: There is an inverse relationship between the affinity of a social media service and its targetability.

Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions - Red Sox data analysis

It�s lovely but it�s not decision management, James Taylor about Bill James.

More data usually beats better algorithms, by Anand Rajaraman.

Team A came up with a very sophisticated algorithm using the Netflix data. Team B used a very simple algorithm, but they added in additional data beyond the Netflix set: information about movie genres from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). Guess which team did better?

Opinion Mining Startups, Matthew Hurst.

On ethical issues of randomized experiments, by Sandro Saitta.