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binarray2000 on Nov 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who ...

Fascinating stuff... and something I want to learn more about.

Can you please recommend me books/software applications/online courses for doing the work these guys were doing for Obama campaign?

(Just to clarify: I am a developer and I grok SQL. So that part is covered. Other parts... less so.)

peteforde on Nov 7, 2012 [–]

I recommend Collective Intelligence, published by O'Reilly.

If you look online there's Ruby source code examples to go with the Python in the book.

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