Hedge Funds’ Use of Alternative, Unstructured Data to Generate Returns

How to value data:

• Scarcity (how many other actors in the market have it)
• Granularity (time, aggregation)
• Structure (vs. unstructured–“cost”)
• Coverage (demographics, geos, industry coverage)

Really great talk from an Ex-SAC Capital Director.As the saying goes, “from the horses mouth”

Image Hosting as a Business

Drew DeVault, creator of now-defunct MediaCrush, has some interesting things to say about the image-hosting business:

The Profitability of Online Services

Scraping w/ Celery in 6 mins

Python Celery demo

A short demo screencast I made about how to use python’s Celery library in a basic way: