Monthly Archives: February 2010

Dissipation and Displacement of Hotspots in Reaction-Diffusion Models of Crime [PNAS]

From the abstract… “The mechanisms driving the nucleation, spread, and dissipation of crime hotspots are poorly understood. As a consequence, the ability of law enforcement agencies to use mapped crime patterns to design crime prevention strategies is severely hampered. We … Continue reading

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Fraunhofer HHI’s New 7-Megapixel Immersive Cinema

We just thought this was an interesting peek into the not so distant future …. Enjoy!

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What’s Next? Judging Sequences of Binary Events [HT Paul Kedrosky]

From the abstract … “The authors review research on judgments of random and nonrandom sequences involving binary events with a focus on studies documenting gambler’s fallacy and hot hand beliefs. The domains of judgment include random devices, births, lotteries, sports … Continue reading

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demos Augmented-Reality Maps [Ted 2010]

“Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be … Continue reading

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“The Enemy of My Enemy” – Steve Strogatz in the NY Times

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Relational Topic Models for Document Networks — Chang & Blei

This is a very important paper by Jonathan Chang and David Blei. Suffice to say, it has potential use in a wide class of social science applications.  Click here to access related material on Professor Blei’s Princeton homepage.  Click here for … Continue reading

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The Law Clerkship Tournament : The Expanded Edition [Repost]

Our multipart series on the clerkship tournament continues above with an expanded edition of the law clerks data.  The data is derived from my paper Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary (2010 Forthcoming–Ohio State Law … Continue reading

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Chart Wars: Politics and Data Visualization

“Statistical Visual thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” {Revised Version of H.G. Wells Quote }

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The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court — Now in HD!

What are some of the key takeaway points? (1) The Supreme Court’s increasing reliance upon its own decisions over the 1800-1830 window. (2) The important role of maritime/admiralty law in the early years of the Supreme Court’s citation network.  At … Continue reading

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The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court

The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court — Now in HD! from Computational Legal Studies on Vimeo. What are some of the key takeaway points? (1) The Supreme Court’s increasing reliance upon its … Continue reading

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Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent [Via NY Times]

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United States Court of Appeals & Parallel Tag Clouds from IBM Research [Repost from 10/23]

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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The Age of Quantum Computing? [From Nature]

From the Abstract … “The race is on to build a computer that exploits quantum mechanics. Such a machine could solve problems in physics, mathematics and cryptography that were once thought intractable, revolutionizing information technology and illuminating the foundations of … Continue reading

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