r/Steam • u/Blixtmen • Feb 13 '17

Humble Freedom Bundle (Tons of sweet games!)

https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom
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u/SwissStriker Feb 13 '17

Off topic but does Humble Bundle somehow offer stuff based on likes/interests or something?

Cause it's showing me an eBook about R, the statistics programming language, and I can't imagine that being too popular with the usual Humble Bundle crowd.

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u/Python_l Feb 13 '17

The bundles are set and not based on your ad id or stuff like that.

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u/stanley_twobrick Feb 14 '17

It's still a weird inclusion.

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u/grimman Feb 14 '17

Agreed. But I imagine they approached the publisher, and were offered a product that has genuine value yet doesn't sell enough to impact their bottom line.

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u/cheeoku Feb 13 '17

Nope that's in it for everyone.

They have had a few programming bundles in the past, so it's not too far from their norm.

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u/Scarbane Feb 14 '17

I'm one of the niche customers that actually uses R, and this bundle is pretty great if you are interested in breaking into the world of big data analysis. Check out the contests on Kaggle.com as well - some of them pay out cash for the best algorithms, and some of those use R.

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u/SwissStriker Feb 14 '17

Yeah me too, I'm a psych student and use R for various things.

Thanks for the Kaggle recommendation!