Tag Archives: time series

Are Scientific Reputations Boosted Artificially? [NatureNews]

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The Electronic World Treaty Index [Our Post @ VoxPopuLII - Cornell LII]

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Announcing the Beta Prerelease of the New Electronic World Treaty Index

What is the World Treaty Index? The World Treaty Index (WTI), originally compiled by Peter Rohn in the 1960s and 1970s and subsequently maintained and updated at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive list of all known treaties formed during … Continue reading

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Cash for Clunkers – Visualization and Analysis

Cash for Clunkers: A Dynamic Map of the Cash Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS) Some Background on the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) From the official July 27, 2009 press release – “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also released … Continue reading

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Dynamic Animation of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit Email Network

  FULL SCREEN FOR BETTER VIEWING! Click on this icon to view the Movie in Full Screen Mode! STATIC SNAPSHOT TO DYNAMIC ANIMATION In our prior post analyzing the email database of Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, … Continue reading

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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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Getting Ready for First Monday? Time Series of SCOTUS Word Usage

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Tax Day! A First-Order History of the Supreme Court and Tax

Click to view the full image. In honor of Tax Day, we’ve produced a simple time series representation of the Supreme Court and tax.  The above plot shows the how often the word “tax” occurs in the cases of  the … Continue reading

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When is the first term enough?: On approximation in social science

Research in the academic world suffers from the “hammer problem” – that is, the methods we use are often those that we have in our toolbox, not necessarily those that we should be using.  This is especially true in computational … Continue reading

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