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Short URLs, Big Fun:
Hilary Mason Chief Scientist, bitly
@hmason [email protected]
Understanding the World in Realtime
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Our goal is to understand what people are paying
attention to on the internet in realtime.
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http://bit.ly/xQRglm
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10s of millions of URLs per day 100s of millions of clicks per day
10s of billions of URLs
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Big Data
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Data
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Data scientists?
awesomenerds
engineeringmath
compscihacking
nerds
nerds
nerdsnerds
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What can we learn from a lot of people talking to each other?
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Your experience of a site is not my experience of that site.
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Devices matter.
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Networks matter.
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The (real) world matters.
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Revolution.
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(Silly Things on the Internet)
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the cutest kitten
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Context matters.
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What are people paying �attention to right now?
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