Election Analytics, Tetris, and More Data Links of the Week
So, Movember finally arrived (seehttp://ca.movember.com/). So far, not a lot of articles about moustaches. But I should find some by the end of the month! Nevertheless, I discoverd a great post for those wo used to be addicted players
- "Millions of hours have been lost through people playing Tetris. It's a simple game, so why we find it so compelling?"http:// mindhacks.com/bbc-future-column-the-psychology-of-tetris/…
- Drew Linzer's http://votamatic.org/ "The stats man who predicted Obama's win" via http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20246741…
- "Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election" http://www.floatingsheep.org/mapping-racist-tweets-in-response-to.html…
- "moving from polls to forecasts" http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/election-day-blog-post-moving-from-polls-to-forecasts/… on @lamclay's great blog (following http://simplystatistics.org/539704/on-weather-forecasts-nate-silver-and-the… )
- for those who still want to understand how to play with datahttp://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/methodology/ for the description of Nate Silver's methodology
- US elections, on http://gianlubaio.blogspot.ca/gotcha.html… from the model described here http://gianlubaio.blogspot.co.uk/bayes-for-president.html…
- "Highly Unscientific Ways of Predicting the Next President" (but who cares) http://www.wired.com/underwire/2/11/unscientific-election-predictions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29…
- en francais, sur le blog de @tomroud "5 leçons scientifiques du succès de Nate Silver" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2… ou "Qui va gagner l'élection présidentielle américaine?" par @adelaiguehttp://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/22/11/03/qui-va-gagner-lelection-presidentielle-americaine.html…
- US elections... "Color might have been a decent option here"http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/224813/color-might-have-been-a-decent-option-here…
And as usual, several posts on different topics that I found interesting,
- “The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians” http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/co…
- "Did the sun just explode? The last Dutch Book you’ll ever make"http://bayesianbiologist.com/did-the-sun-just-explode-the-last-dutch-book-youll-ever-make/… the answer of @CJBayesian to http://xkcd.com/1132/
- "Why academic publishing is like a coffee shop" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impac… "An enormous mystique adds relatively little"
- via @sciencegoddess "How to devise passwords that drive hackers away" http://www.nytimes.com/technology/personaltech/how-to-devise-passwords-that-drive-hackers-away.html?_r=0…
- "Word diffusion and climate science" http://www.plosone.org/artiAdoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047966…
- "Models must be simpler than the phenomena they are supposed to model" http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/the-principle-of-incomplete-knowledge/…
- "Economics and Natural Disasters"http:// conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/eics-and-natural-disasters.html…
"Mathematically Challenging Bagels" by Robert Krulwichhttp://www. npr.org/krulwich/2012/11/08/164682556/mathematically-challenging-bagels?ft=1&f=1007…
- "we no longer need expensive publishing networks" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-eduon-network/blog/2012/nov/08/open-access-academic-publishing-models…
- "How Dark Sky work" http://journal.darkskyapp.com/how-dark-sky-works/… via @therealprotonk
- "Why supervisors should continue measuring financial risks – the fallacy of simple rules" http://www.voxeu.org/why-supervisors-should-continue-measuring-financial-risks-fallacy-simple-rules… via @blogizmo
- "A Math-Free Guide to the Math of Alice in Wonderland" http://io9.com/a-math+free-guide-to-the-math-of-alice-in-wonderland… via @centerofmath
- "How Twitter language reveals your gender" http://bostonglobe.com/ide… "Social media is giving linguists new insight into how speech varies"
- "Supermarket banking" http://coppolacomment.blogspot.co.uk/supermarket-banking.html… "Problems didn't arise from proximity to investment banking; they came from the retail sector" see also "On Being The Right Size" (still talking about banks) http://b.rw/TPSh78
- "Tweeting out loud" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/10/16/fullick-tweeting-out-loud/… "ethics, knowledge and social media in academe"
- "Are You a Good Econometrician? No, I am British"http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/11/maurizio-bovi-are-you-a-good-econometrician-no-i-am-british-with-a-response-from-george-evans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View%29…
- nice discussion on "Dumb econometrics questions/bleg on forecast probabilities" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/11/dumb-econometrics-questionsbleg-on-forecast-probabilities.html… following a question asked by Nick Rowe
- "Climate policy: Do economists all favour a carbon tax?" via@stephenfgordonhttp://www.economist.com/freeexchange/2011/09/climate-policy?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/do_economists_all_favour_a_carbon_tax_…
- "Economics is a serious and difficult subject"http://www. tandfonline.com/doi/0/1350178X.2012.714143?journalCode=rjec20…via @phnk
- on "Market Noise and Signal " http://derekhernquist.com/market-noise-and-signal/…by @derekhernquist
- "A compulsory register of trials could give a more accurate view of studies and test results" http://www.ft.com/intl/cm795fbd6-22f2-11e2-938d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links/rss/arts_columnists_timharford/feed//product… by @TimHarford
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