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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Merging Arthur Banks’ Time Series with COW
Recently I needed to combine data from two of the most widely used (at least in my subfield) cross-national time-series data sets: Arthur Banks’ time series and the Correlates of War Project (COW). Given how often these data sets are … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Banks, Correlates of War, data, economics, history, how-to, international relations, political science, politics, programming, R, Ruby, Stata, statistics, technical, violence, war
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
Fans of The Big Bang Theory will already know about this variant on the traditional game, Rock-Paper-Scissors. Adding two new moves–”Lizard” and “Spock”–increases the number of possible combinations in a two-player game from three to 10 (assuming we do not … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang Theory, comedy, entertainment, fun, humor, information technology, internet, nerd, online politics, physics, reptuation, science, technology, television
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The Future of Checkpoint Security
Those who know me in person follow me on Twitter are probably aware of my disdain for current TSA procedures. However, there is a glimmer of hope in this article from USA Today. The article describes new technology to be … Continue reading
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Tagged air travel, game theory, politics, security, surveillance, technology, terrorism, TSA, violence
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Getting Started with Prediction
From historians to financial analysts, researchers of all stripes are interested in prediction. Prediction asks the question, “given what I know so far, what do I expect will come next?” In the current political season, presidential election forecasts abound. This … Continue reading
Posted in Technical, Uncategorized
Tagged artificial intelligence, expectation, genetics, history, information technology, mathematics, politics, probability, programming, Python, regression, Ruby, statistics, technical
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Where Things Come From
Where did your shoes come from? Your coffee? Your laptop? One of the beautiful things about the modern world is that you can hold a piece of technology in your hands–or wear it on your feet–without having to know the … Continue reading
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Tagged economic development, economics, food, fun, humor, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, political economy, statistics, technology, visualization
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Gelman’s Five Essential Books on American Elections
The Browser today has an interview with Andrew Gelman, one of the best-informed researchers on American elections (and other things). His selections are a bit strange eclectic, but readers of this blog might find them interesting. The one that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayesian statistics, elections, literature, politics, statistics
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Notes on the Sinaloa Cartel
From NYT over the weekend. Some of the article is hyperbolic, but I present the interesting parts here without comment. On logistics: From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, drug trafficking, drugs, mexican cartels, Mexico, organized crime, politics, violence
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Latitude, Longitude, and Culture
It is rare to see a “big idea” in social science that also lends itself to real-world analysis. A pessimistic categorization of the field might group researchers into “storytellers” and “regression runners.” Each group has a few stars who do … Continue reading
Eliminate File Redundancy with Ruby
Say you have a file with many repeated, unnecessary lines that you want to remove. For safety’s sake, you would rather make an abbreviated copy of the file rather than replace it. Ruby makes this a cinch. You just iterate … Continue reading
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Tagged graphic design, graphics, how-to, LaTeX, plots, programming, R, Ruby, scripts, tikz, time savers, visualization
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: Games (and More) in Stata
Stata is a software program for running statistical analysis, as readers who have been to grad school in the social sciences in the last couple of decades will know. Compared to R Stata is like an old TI-83 calculator, but … Continue reading
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Tagged blackjack, card games, fun, games, humor, iPhone, iTunes, Music, nerd, R, Stata, technical
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