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		Benford's Law (a neat fraud detection technique) applied to Wikileaks data (drewconway.com)
		2 points by datageek on Aug 3, 2010 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

datageek on Aug 3, 2010 [–]

Benford's Law is really simple and neat. Worth reading about in isolation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

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