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A hand-drawn diagram of how the money & data flows in the free-app-alternative-data-stock-market complex

This Is Why We Can't Have Free Things

Ironically, the same people (me) unknowingly providing the data to companies like YipitData, Quandl, and Thinknum are oftentimes the same people losing money on the other side of the stock market trades that they are empowering.

Black Words

Quordle for the chaos, Heardle for the culture (but only when I know the songs), and Nerdle for the beauty inherent in mathematics. We decided to give our own spin on the game for the people we love the most. Check out our newly released, Black Wordle.

Calendars of the Diaspora

Calendars of the Diaspora

There are an upsetting number of days whose significance I came to learn of much later than I would have hoped. From the Yoruba New Year on June 3rd, to Walter Rodney's birthday on March 23rd.

J. Cole Doesn't Care About Poor People. [BRACKETS]

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J. Cole Doesn't Care About Poor People. [BRACKETS]

Taxes, J. Cole, Philanthropy, and Social Contracts

How To Lose Every Follower in 10 Days

How To Lose Every Follower in 10 Days

We might not have the answers to growing a twitter following, but we just might have the answers to shrinking one. A step-by-step guide to losing all your twitter followers. Social media sucks anyways.

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Black Twitter: An Experiment, Inspired by FUBU

Black Twitter: An Experiment, Inspired by FUBU

The data is content. The data is humor. The data is news. The data is views. The data is dollars.

The Bars API.

The Bars API gives developers easy access to retrieve random quotes from a wide array of artists for use in their own applications.

Business School, Web scrapes, and Machine Learning.

Business School, Web scrapes, and Machine Learning.

As a prospective MBA applicant, you're likely only interested in profiles similar to your own. Yet, its unlikely that someone has your exact stats and background, so you go for the closest approximation... but there are hundreds of these profiles and they're spread across ~60 different articles.

Soulja Boy is Mark Zuckerberg

Soulja Boy is Mark Zuckerberg

Soulja's alleged $1 million grossing year at the age of 17 was the unequivocal result of his deft management of the aforementioned internet services and savant like understanding of social media, networking effects, and the nature of virality in the impending Social Media Age.

Black History Month & computers

Black History Month & computers

It's February and we're here to celebrate the undeniable creative synergy between black people and computers.

Meek Mill: Championships

Meek Mill: Championships

That's not to say that there are no mentions of trapping, guns, or tales of prolific intercourse, etc., but these reference are sometimes laced in an overarching commentary about assumed criminality, criminal justice, and the far reaching effects of mass incarceration and over policing.

Relationship Autopsy: A Story of Unrequited Love as Told By a Computer

Relationship Autopsy: A Story of Unrequited Love as Told By a Computer

Bars For Days, Chips With Lays

Bars For Days, Chips With Lays

The project was cool, I love quotes. But you know what I like more than quotes? Bars. I thought to myself - it'd be great if I could replace these inspirational quotes, with snippets from the most expansive, influential, and pervasive literary canon in human history. Rap lyrics.

Conversational Analytics: A Technical Walkthrough

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Conversational Analytics: A Technical Walkthrough

Anatomy of The Emoji

Anatomy of The Emoji

A special committee within the consortium decides which emojis get included as part of the official unicode standard.

0: The Kernel

&computers: A nod to the under-explored frontiers that prove even more interesting when looked at under a new light. Think blank & computers, where the blank can be anything and everything that you might be interested in.