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Recall & Precision

Precision and recall are two fundamental quality measures in search and information retrieval applications.  Google is fundamentally a search application. But Google doesn’t need to optimize for...

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Why ad networks should optimize for precision and not recall

When I was working on my PhD living in Austin, I owned several motorcycles, and spent lots of time online researching parts, upgrades, repairs, etc. on sites like svrider.com and vfrworld.com. Without...

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Questions on Startups from Luke Carrière

When I was working on my PhD in Austin I got involved with a group called 3 Day Startup (3DS).  The idea is simple: get 40 bright, motivated, and entrepreneurial students in a room for 3 days, and have...

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Lending Club Loan Analysis: Making Money with Logistic Regression

The Lending Club is an online marketplace for loans. As a borrower, you can apply for a loan, and if accepted, your loan gets listed in the marketplace. As an investor, you can browse loans in the...

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3 Day Startup NYC: Day 1 Mentoring

I love innovation. I love working with smart people. And I love working with limited resources around extremely tight deadlines. 3 Day Startup: 30 bright entrepreneurs. Ideas flow Friday night,...

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An Insider’s Guide to Facebook’s IPO

The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece on investing in the Facebook IPO. They admit, “most retail investors will be shut out of the offering and won’t get the IPO price, meaning they likely will...

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NYC Dining: The cost of a “B”

If you eat out in New York City, the image above should evoke some sort of visceral reaction. In July of 2010, the NYC Department of Health began rating each of the  24,000 restaurants throughout the...

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Restart

Etsy acquired my startup Adtuitive in 2009. At the time, we had a pretty cool product that automated online advertising for small retailers, and we were operating at a modest scale of 200 million ads...

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A Corollary to ExperimentCalculator.com (with examples)

Dan McKinley recently put together a very useful tool in estimating how long to run your A/B tests. The obvious corollary here being, “your experiments will take much longer than you think”. Let’s...

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Coding in the Rain

It’s been rainy here in NYC as of late. Just about the only thing worse than 90 degree city heat is 90 degree city heat with intense thunderstorms roaring through. So I find myself indoors when it...

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Last Minute Eatin’ Launches; Gets You the Hottest Table in Town

Do you love eating out but hate making plans? There’s nothing worse than trying to find a great table when you need it most, only to find that all your favorite places are completely booked. New York...

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The Life of a Last Minute New York City Restaurant Reservation

There’s been a lot of hoopla recently about so-called high frequency restaurant reservation trading. Are computers stealing my reservations? Will I ever get into Per Se again? It’s Saturday night, I...

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Eight Ways You’ve Misconfigured Your A/B Test

You’ve read about the virtues of A/B testing feature releases. You love iterating quickly, testing quickly, and continually learning in a data-driven fashion. You appreciate the importance of keeping...

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A Mixpanel Data Exporter

Mixpanel is a great analytics tool for small to medium sized web and mobile shops. And not surprisingly, their analytics product has pretty good adoption (over 1,400 companies using it, according to...

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A Last Minute Infographic; Last Minute Eatin’ featured in the NYTimes

Last Minute Eatin’ has been running for over two months now and has tweeted over 1,500 tables since launch. LME knows exactly when and where tables are open, and you can now visualize these openings...

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Your First A/B Tests: A Step by Step Guide

Your A/B testing system is hot off the press, you’ve integrated with Optimizely, Google’s Content Experiments, or maybe deployed some code of your own. You open your eyes, look around, and see a whole...

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