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PLEASE follow my other account instead: I only tweet @BigData. Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia

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Reminder: These days I tweet as @bigdata http://t.co/pyIVd0tD

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VC's, hedgies, & index funds: Long-term performance of Venture Capital funds, great ONLY if you include the dotcom era http://t.co/UkizPwQk

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On Elite Schools, and Soft vs. Hard Skills: too much GOOG not enough AAPL? http://t.co/jn3uy2Qz

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Uncovered auctions are never a good sign: Germany failed to place 40% of 10-yr Bunds, yields were above 2% http://t.co/8gEs3l5X

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Knots and Quantum Theory: Ed Witten gives a talk to a general audience: http://t.co/lJW6eOaz more technical pdf http://t.co/hkwMPHae

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Inter-generational income mobility: It might be time to study what the Scandinavians are doing right http://t.co/cy2vx3Bi #ows

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CEO Pay: after u statistically control for relevant factors, gap bet. US & other nations has narrowed considerably http://t.co/o5k3Bnmn #ows

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Another small earthquake in SF!

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2011 Web 2.0 Summit: By the Numbers (collection of fun factoids I heard in sessions over the past few days) http://t.co/VpfMQYfq #w2s

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Photos from today's #OccupySF March http://t.co/Cwhp0SoH #occupywallstreet

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Campaign Finance & Lobbying by the Numbers: it takes serious $ to compete in DC http://t.co/468y8A0j #occupywallstreet #occupysf #viz

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9-1-1: the phone number we'll all be dialing if the 9-9-9 tax plan ever gets enacted #occupywallstreet #occupysf

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Income/Wealth inequality charts: Added wealth inequality data ("Top1% own 40%") http://t.co/flrcczEW #occupywallstreet #occupysf

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Infographic: Share of Top 1% keeps growing + Income concentration more pronounced in the US http://t.co/flrcczEW #occupywallstreet #occupysf

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Wall Street Bonuses by the Numbers => a series of infographics for #OccupyWallStreet & #OccupySF marchers http://t.co/w5WllgGa

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Calif spent $6B on 30K guards & other prison-system employees vs. $4.7B on higher educ (33 campuses w/ 670K students) http://t.co/UEsecOL9

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Pioneer in probability, stochastic processes, & SDE's: Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan awarded National Medal of Science http://t.co/t5zxzyV4

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Obama tax plan in a few charts (in advance of the #gopdebate): Federal & capital gains tax rates + the Buffet Rule http://t.co/lO393lrF

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Rick Perry: "I'm comfortable that the science was good." U mean unlike the science behind evolution & climate change? http://t.co/OkvKU9S

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Yikes: When Jerry Brown was governor in the 1970's there were 40,000 INMATES. Now there are 40,000 prison GUARDS! via http://t.co/VJMhjeR