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A Brilliant Use of Automated Emails as an Online Marketing Strategy Made Me Buy a Hockey Shirt

by Jean-Francois Belisle on March 11, 2010

in Email Marketing,Entertainment

I spent the last few days/weeks computing some R functions for automating a multiple variable selection of linear models using the LASSO and the SCAD penalties. It took me time to create my code, but at the end of the day, it is freshly automated and it is able to perform a statistical task in [...]

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Twestival Local 2009 – The Social Web Do Care

by Jean-Francois Belisle on September 7, 2009

in Events,Social Media

On February 12th 2009, the first Twestival event was held simultaneously in 202 cities around the globe and helped to raise more than $US 250,000 which gives the opportunity to offer drinkable water through well drilling for those who needed the most in Ethiopia (See video below). As a follow-up to this successful fundraising event, [...]

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The BIXI – What Rocks and What Sucks?

by Jean-Francois Belisle on May 18, 2009

in Innovation,Technology and Society

The BIXI (Bicycle taxi) – the new public bike system in Montreal – was officially launched this month, but still only a few Montrealers have tried this new service. Last Sunday afternoon, I went to the Old Port without any specific intentions and ended up trying one of these futuristic-looking bikes proudly sponsored by Rio [...]

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