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Re:Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin by RepressedEmu on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:32AM (#15663207)
Your second example is very fascinating. Is finding unique datasets like this part of your job? How lucrative is something like that?
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Re:Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin by bllguo on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:21PM (#15665567)
I believe dsacco's posted about doing similar work before. Apparently there are teams of people at hedge funds that comb the web to find these kinds of datasets - non-obvious signals for financial metrics. Very eye-opening stuff. I always find his/her anecdotes interesting.
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