Monthly Archives: July 2010

Our Aging World — The World’s Growing Elderly Population

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Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades [Via NY Times]

The Sunday New York Times features an article by Adam Liptak assessing the conservatism of Robert Court.  The article features some good coverage for some of the leading law and political science scholars who study the United States Supreme Court. … Continue reading

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ICPSR 2010 Summer Program — Introduction to Computing for the Study of Complex Systems

This summer I will be teaching a summer course entitled Introduction to Computing for the Study of Complex Systems at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods.  For those not familiar, ICSPR has been offering summer classes in methods since 1963. … Continue reading

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Julian Assange: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks [ TED 2010 ]

Love it or hate it … WikiLeaks has been in the news quite a bit lately.  In this TED talk, Founder Julian Assange sits down with Chris Anderson to discuss WikiLeaks. From the talk description … “The controversial website WikiLeaks collects … Continue reading

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The Google Prediction API [From Google Labs]

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Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources (02-08) [From Environmental Law Institute]

Click above to access visual and for the Full Report entitled Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008 click here! [HT: Barry Ritholtz @ The Big Picture]

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The Evolution of FCC Lobbying Coalitions [Pierre de Vries]

Social graphs of FCC lobbying The Journal of Social Structure is currently running an online visualization symposium that I would suggest checking out.  Among the broader set of offerings, the readers of this blog might be particularly interested in Pierre … Continue reading

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Oklahoma’s Infamous Ballot Initiative – State Question 755 [Via the Economist]

In addition to my interests related to the theme of this blog, I have a number of ongoing projects related to American direct democracy. Thus, I will be following with interest the recent developments in Oklahoma. According to the Economist, … Continue reading

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Iowa Electronic Markets: Who Will Win Control of the House in the 2010 Midterms?

For many years, the Iowa Electronic Markets have served as a futures market for political and economic information.  As we move to the fall, the race for control of the House (and in turn the Speakership) appears to hang in … Continue reading

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Harambeenet 2010 @ Duke Computer Science Department

Today — Mike, Jon and I are at the 2010 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 … Continue reading

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Irrelevant Events Affect Voters’ Evaluations of Government Performance [PNAS]

In PNAS this week Andrew J. Healy, Neil Malhotra, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo offer Irrelevant Events Affect Voters’ Evaluations of Government Performance.  From the abstract:  ”Does information irrelevant to government performance affect voting behavior? If so, how does this help us … Continue reading

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Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness [ Ted 2010 ]

Those who know me are well aware of my obsession with fractals (see here).  But why listen to me when you can here from the man himself —  Benoît Mandelbrot!

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