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Pete Davies

Building new things @gethudson. Previously @Medium, @Automattic, @BBCNews.

Editor of Growth Hacking, Run ​H​o​p, and Pete’s notes on …
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Mar 3, 2016

Notes on Constraints and Distribution

I’m still trying to figure out some theories around content distribution and discovery. Notes on… is a collection of some of my work towards that.

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Feb 25, 2016

The first three rules of data analysis

Don’t underestimate their significance

1. Correlation ≠ Causation

An oldie and a goodie. Oft-cited, almost as frequently misunderstood. Compare:

  1. “We changed to 1-week…
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Jan 18, 2016

Notes on “A Tennis Racket”

BuzzFeed and BBC Radio’s File on 4 collaborated on an investigation into match-fixing in tennis and found that 16 top-50 players have likely deliberately lost so that gamblers could profit.

Some observations:

  1. This was a…
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