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Alex Lundry

Alex Lundry

Conservative Political Pollster, Microtargeter, Data-Miner, and Data Visualizer
RT @Cord: Now, this is an annual report! Well done @WarbyParker. RT @brianchappell: and the complete opposite of a 'crapgraphic' http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-...
RT @antheawatson: It's always interesting that people think of Twitter and Facebook as sexy and data as boring. But social media is sexy because of the data.
Read this right now: "How does Target know I'm pregnant?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012... #BigData is taking over EVERYWHERE.
But more importantly, what I'm learning from team Obama is the importance of giving boring data projects awesome codenames.
I've been preaching the gospel of Data Harmonization for a long time; looks like team Obama is doing it http://mobile.slate.com/article... #bigdata2012
Excellent piece by @PollsAndVotes on how media orgs need to reevalute their reporting standards on IVR polls: http://pollsandvotes.com/PaV...
RT @digiphile: "It's not enough to ship the data. you have to tell the story. story is the last mile of big data."-@cshirky #opengov #gov20
RT @digiphile: Best storytellers with data = @ProPublica, says @cshirky, but they're an exception. "need storytellers who know how to write a SQL column"
Excellent. RT @Ethos3: Why I Charge More https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/why-i-c... - A designer's open letter to his future clients on why he charges more.
Very excited to find my old G-town Tax Policy prof @impertecon on Twitter. Excellent prof, smart analyst, great guy.
CAP does their best Paul Ryan impersonation w/this video charting the impact of the stimulus: http://www.youtube.com/watch... #chartwars
CAP does their best Paul Ryan impersonation w/this video charting the impact of the stimulus: http://t.co/6V7blUub #chartwars
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Attention politicians: when you bash polls you are LITERALLY dismissing the opinions of American voters.
RT @FixAaron: RT @aterkel: "Polls are good for cross-country skiiers and for strippers." -- Sarah Palin, dismissing polls, on Fox
My son (3) just gave a perfect description of Radiohead: "It sounds like that boy is singing in a dark tunnel."
RT @PatrickRuffini: Republicans getting serious about #BigData? Check out this job posting: http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs...
Lots of potential here RT @hatchjt Verrrry cool way to make interactive/reactive text in HTML. http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ (Thanks @ScottinDC!)
Not sure how the Argentines in my family are going to feel about this... http://twitter.com/alexlun...
New conservative political org looking to hire Data Scientists, please share widely: http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs... #bigdata2012
RT @TatiPosada: Not going to lie, if I was proposed to in an infographic like this I'd say yes: http://mashable.com/2012... #YESiAmADork
RT @amyrkramer: Liking @NBCSmash but secretly wish it was about the Friday Night Lights character Smash and his mama. #cleareyesfullhearts
PSA: you can now listen to the new album from @ournameisfun 8 days early on their website http://www.ournameisfun.com/
Extremely glad to look at my calendar for the week and see no travel for the first time in about a month.
I love Adele, but she very clearly isn't 100%. Hope that voice continues to heal.
A cursory look at how the Obama campaign is using data science #bigdata2012 http://www.economist.com/node...
NYTimes: "The Age of Big Data" http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
Only in political media could a list of "losers" from an event include the only literal winner from that same event: http://www.politico.com/news...
RT @nickgenes: "Infographics are visual journalism & must be governed by same ethics" http://www.themillions.com/2012... a beautiful, damning exploration of chart wars
Raw vocal power RT @monkeycageblog: Isolated Whitney Houston vocals on "How Will I Know." http://jakefogelnest.com/post...
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