The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 3 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Disclosure
Mailchimp's data science team spends 80 percent of time building tools
“And right now we spend about 20% of our time doing insight, which is just one-off reporting or one-off sort of consulting engagements, and we spend about 80% of our time building tools or capabilities”
John Foreman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:20 John Foreman, Mailchimp // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013
Disclosure
Mailchimp infers recipient age and gender via cross-network subscription graphs
“We can actually determine a lot of demographic data through this, ah, age, gender, things like that.”
John Foreman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:11 John Foreman, Mailchimp // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013
Disclosure
Mailchimp used Redis to maintain dossiers on billions of email addresses
“For our fast storage, we used Redis. We've got one dossier per email address of all the email addresses we've ever seen, so billions of unique addresses and a bunch of events about everything they've engaged with in the past.”
John Foreman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 15:06 John Foreman, Mailchimp // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013
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