Monthly Archives: October 2009

Bommarito, Katz, Zelner & Fowler – Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks (Version 2.0 w/ SCOTUS Citation Network Application)

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Aaron Koblin of Google Creative Labs

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Electricity Market Simulations @ Argonne National Labs

Given my involvement with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, many have justifiably asked me to describe how a computational simulation could assist in the crafting of public policy. The Electricity Market Simulations run at Argonne National Lab … Continue reading

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The Structure of the United States Code [w/ Zoomorama] [Repost]

Formally organized into 50 titles, the United States Code is the repository for federal statutory law. While each of the 50 titles define a particular substantive domain, the structure within and across titles can be represented as a graph/network. In a … Continue reading

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United States Court of Appeals & Parallel Tag Clouds from IBM Research

Download the paper: Collins, Christopher; Viégas, Fernanda B.; Wattenberg, Martin. Parallel Tag Clouds to Explore Faceted Text Corpora To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), October, 2009. [Note: The Paper is 24.5 MB] Here … Continue reading

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Golden Parachutes: How the Bankers Went Down [From WallStats.com]

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A Statistical Mechanics Take on No Child Left Behind — Flow and Diffusion of High-Stakes Test Scores [From PNAS]

The October 13th Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science features a very interesting article by Michael Marder and Dhruv Bansal from the University of Texas. From the article … ”Texas began testing almost every student in almost every … Continue reading

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The Clerkship Tournament: Supreme Court Edition [Repost from 6/3]

As part our multipart series on the clerkship tournament, here is a simple bar graph for the top placing law schools in the Supreme Court Clerkship Tourney. It is important to note that we do not threshold for the number of graduates … Continue reading

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The Map of the Future [From Densitydesign.org]

As we mentioned in previous posts, Seadragon is a really cool product. Please note load times may vary depending upon your specific machine configuration as well as the strength of your internet connection. For those not familiar with how to operate it … Continue reading

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Bankruptcy and Foreclosure InfoGraphic [Via Total Bankruptcy]

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Who Should Win (probably not who will win) the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Benoît Mandelbrot whose classic work on fractals as well as more recent work questioning the Efficient Market Hypothesis offers a lasting contribution to positive economic theory. While the committee is likely considering Eugene Fama and/or Kenneth French (of Fama-French fame), we … Continue reading

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