Same here! Seeing how useful tableau (a far less powerful tool) has been for our company, it's clear that there is a big market for empowering everyone to dig for data-driven insights.
No, Eric Ding has been tweeting pretty terrible misinformation, and is being rightly dragged for it by pretty much every epidemiologist I know on Twitter, including myself.
His takes are bad.
He's called this virus's R0 the worst he's seen in his career, which is absurd. He's conflated R0 and attack rate. Familiar errors because no one pays attention to ID epidemiology until there's an outbreak, and then suddenly decides they're an expert.
If one must go to Twitter for ones epidemiology, I'd suggest Tara Smith (@aetiology) or Maia Majumder (@maiamajumder), both of whom are actual ID epidemiologists and science communicators.
I’ve seen your comments on several CoV articles here, and this one, like the others, has really helped me contextualize the information I’m seeing and feel a little less nervous. Thanks for taking the time to add your input here.
Millions of people use Pinterest to discover things they love. For many people, Pinterest has replaced Google as their first place to find things to buy, food to cook, and places to visit.
We have hard problems to solve at scale in areas like search, recommendations, and product design. We're still a young company so every person has a big impact and knows everyone else's name.
pg is right to say you shouldn't let clones be a big distraction. This is especially true for Pinterest because we're a small team and we have a lot of work to do. We're trying to build something important that makes life better for lots of people. If you want to help us, you should write to me.
Lots of people on this thread say that clones are inevitable and profitable. That might be true, but at least for me, it would be a sad way to spend my time. I'd hate to tell my kids that I used my best years copying other peoples' products instead of trying to create new ones.
Implement independent user accounts. I got an invite to join Pinterest and then found that I can only sign up using Twitter (no thank you) or Facebook (ultra-double no thank you).
Pinspire will let me create a Pinspire account, so right off the bat they are more useful to me. If they offer an Android app I'll be completely sold.
Note to Web apps who think they are fodder for such cloning: You best be really full-featured out of the gate, otherwise you've given away your lead in the arms race.
We are a very small team with a lot of interesting and creative challenges ahead of us! Pinterest already does billions of pageviews, has terabytes of interesting data to analyze, and is growing at 50% each month.
There are fascinating problems ahead of us, including search and recommendation algorithms, a developer api, internationalization, and a monetization platform will make using Pinterest better, not worse.
We care about creating a great place for people to do their very best work. We look for folks who are creative, humble, talented, and hard-working.
Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/about/careers) is hiring. We are in downtown Palo Alto.
Our engineering team is still really small (7) from places like Google, Apple, Quora, Facebook and Yelp. Pinterest is doing billions of PV's each month and is scaling very quickly.
We’re looking for great engineers who get excited at the prospect of shipping to millions of users on an a daily basis.
Downtown Palo Alto, CA - Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Product Designer (Full-time)
* We are building a new way for people to share and discover things they love. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social services in the world.
* We are a small team (9) and we are passionate about building a product that hundreds of millions of people use every day. We want to build a company where we can work for years to come.
* We ship quickly and iteratively. We care about quality. We take design seriously.
* We are well-funded and work hard to create an environment where people can do great work.
Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is hiring engineers, interns and product designers in Palo Alto.
We are a small team founded by folks from Google & Facebook. We are building a product that is growing quickly and is beloved by millions: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pinterest.com#
One of the most valuable parts of an online identity is the attention you receive from other people. Social networks make getting attention more efficient. In this way, proprietary tools do a lot to enrich your online identity.
For me, this is a great tradeoff. For example, I'm happy to put my pictures on Facebook because my family and friends see those pictures and leave comments that I enjoy. In comparison, my local copies feel like those dusty old photo albums in my parents' basement that nobody ever opens.
We are a 6-person team from Google and Facebook building a visual platform for discovering things you love. We are well funded. Even in private beta, we are growing extremely quickly.
