Monthly Archives: July 2009

Law in Structure of Academic Disciplines [Repost]

This article offers a very interesting insight into the structure of academic disciplines. Using a variety of sources, the authors collected nearly 1 billion interactions from scholarly web portals including Thomson Scientific, Elsevier, JSTOR, etc.    Residing between Economics, Sociology and … Continue reading

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Fun for Upcoming Football Season — Visualizing NFL Box Scores

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The Power of Collaboration in the NetFlix Challenge [NY Times]

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Visualizing State Level Variation in Tax Freedom Day

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In the Meantime … Movie of Flight Patterns

So it has and will be light blogging while we finish a number of projects here in Ann Arbor.  There are a number interesting papers in the queue including The Development of Community Structure in the Supreme Court’s Network of … Continue reading

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Stunning Data Visualization in the AlloSphere

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HarambeeNet @ Duke Computer Science

We enjoyed today’s discussion at the Harambeenet Conference here in the Duke Computer Science Department.  The conference is centered upon network science and computer science education. It features lots of interdisciplinary scholarship and applications of computer science techniques in novel domains. We … Continue reading

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Review of Public Corruption Convictions [From Good]

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State Level Obesity Trends from the CDC Website

It has been light blogging while we finish some projects here in Ann Arbor.  In the meantime, here is an interesting visual offered by CDC website. Also, check out an important paper in this vein by Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler … Continue reading

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YouTube Research — Robust Dynamic Classes Revealed by Measuring the Response Function of a Social System

Here at the CSCS Lab, we are working hard to finish up some projects.  In the meantime, we wanted to highlight one of our favorite articles, an article we previously highlighted on the blog. Some of you might ask “what does … Continue reading

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Computational Linguistics and Law — Some Useful Introductory Slides

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