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Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
Is the Great Gatsby in the public domain? The book was written in 1925 and Fitzgerald passed away in 1940. Copyright generally expires 70 years after the author’s death, so you could be forgiven for thinking the answer is “yes.” If … Continue reading
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Tagged books, copyright, culture, data, economics, education, entertainment, fun, hacker politics, history, how-to, internet politics, law, legislation, literature, micro-institutions everywhere, movies, nerd, online politics, politics, public opinion, rhetoric, SOPA, technology
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Risk, Overreaction, and Control
How many people died because of the September 11 attacks? The answer depends on what you are trying to measure. The official estimate is around 3,000 deaths as a direct result of hijacked aircraft and at the World Trade Center, … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, books, crime, culture, data, economics, elections, ethical statistics, explanation, foreign policy, history, international relations, nerd, political science, politics, psychology, reading, science, security, statistics, terrorism, traffic, transportation, violence, war
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Python for Political Scientists, Spring 2013 Recap
This spring Josh Cutler‘s Python course was back by popular demand. (This time it was known as “Computational Political Economy” but I like the less formal title.) I participated this time around as a teaching assistant rather than student, and … Continue reading
Dollar Bills and US State Borders
A number of proposals (not all serious) have been floating around lately to redraw the borders of the US. According to this list nearly every US state has groups wanting to partition it somehow. One idea was fifty states with … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, behavior, borders, culture, data, economics, map, mapping, maps, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, networks, partition, political science, politics, research, statistics, trade, traffic
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When will telephone polls have their “Literary Digest” moment?
Mention the name Literary Digest to a pollster and they will instantly know what you are talking about. Literary Digest is well-known for their famously wrong prediction that Kansas Republican Alfred Landon would beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1936. … Continue reading
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What Can Novels Teach Us?
Is it worthwhile for a social scientist to read fiction? What can novels teach us about human behavior? This post summarizes the work of several authors who would answer the first question with a resounding “yes,” and describes their arguments … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, culture, data, economics, education, entertainment, fiction, fun, game theory, history, how-to, literature, novels, political science, politics, reading, research, rhetoric, science, useful fiction
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Reducing the Hidden Costs of Urban Living
USC graduate student Jeremy Fuller put it eloquently when he said, “Traffic really just defines your possibilities at any given time.” When traveling from one side of a large metro area to another in the US, a single individual has very … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, commuting, culture, data, ethical statistics, how-to, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, politics, rationality, statistics, technology, traffic, traffic circles, traffic lights, traffic signals, transportation, urban politics
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Off to ISA
The International Studies Association is meeting this week in San Francisco. This will be my first time attending, so I found Megan MacKenzie’s survival guide helpful. Here are some relavent Do’s: Do remember that a full-on formal business suit isn’t necessarily … Continue reading
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Just Don’t Call It Moneyball
Situated in the tech startup capital of the world, it should come as no surprise that the San Francisco Giants are leveraging data analysis to give the team a competitive edge: Within the organization, there are three programmers who maintain … Continue reading
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How Much is a Publication Worth?
How much is a publication worth? If you are a professor of economics at the University of California, this study says that each article published in your field’s top journals (American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economics and Statistics) increases your annual … Continue reading
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Tagged data, economics, nerd, political science, politics, professional development, rationality, work, writing
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