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The half-life of a Wikipedia trend
Everyone knows our attention spans are collapsing. Ten years of daily Wikipedia data says the opposite — and the paper that proved the shrinking-attention thesis had already spotted the exception.
Predicting the Fed’s actions for fun and profit
A closer look at the many ways of predicting FOMC actions and putting on specific views using Polymarket.
Getting started with web scraping in Python
How to mine the web for data - a tour of the web scraping landscape with a Python toolkit.