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Good NYTimes profile of NYU/Hoover Institute professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,who has spent 40+ years developing predictive models of socio-political activity. (Also a nice bit of promo for “The Predictioneer’s Game,” Bueno de Mesquita's book scheduled to come out next month.) “Of course,a somewhat high profile always proves to be an attractor. [...] FYI from O'Reilly Radar. And does this suggest possibility of something like “distributed data analysis”whereby a number of widely scattered watchdogs could be poking into the same data set? If so,raises interesting questions for journalism educators:who is developing the tools to manage such investigations? Enabling Massively Parallel Mathematics Collaboration —[...] An intriguing op-ed in The Washington Post on Saturday (June 20,2009) claimed to spot fraud in the Iran elections by applying some analytic methods basically drawn from Benford's Law. Yes,read the article,but be sure to drill down into the 140+ comments. Most quite cogent and well argued. The Devil Is [...] Nathan,the chap who curates the valuable blog Flowing Data,offers up a bit of hope for journalists who are worried about their employment futures and yet have invested in learning methods of data analysis. When thinking about re-inventing ourselves,consider the phrase “data scientist.” Rise of the Data ScientistAs we've all read by now,Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians. Obviously,I whole-heartedly …[...] Another interesting post from “FlowingData” “Interaction Design Pilot Year Churns Out Great Student Projects In a collaborative initiative between Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and The Danish Design School,the Interaction Design Pilot Year brings together students and faculty from various disciplines for a unique [...] IAJ co-founder Steve Ross has long argued that Craig's List HAS NOT contributed in a major way to the decline of North American newspaper advertising revenues. Here's his latest analysis: This isn't rocket science. Craig's List had NOTHING to do with a supposed decline in classified ad revenue. Here's the raw [...] Handicapping the Horserace
It’s human nature:Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the other candidate’s closet. Or,we can learn from serious journalism to tap into the growing number of digital tools at hand and see what is really going on …[...] The NYTimes moves an interesting short today describing how a couple of economists did some creative analysis suggesting that Oprah was worth a million-plus primary votes for Obama. MEDIA TALK Endorsement From Winfrey Quantified:A Million Votes By BRIAN STELTER Published:August 10,2008 Presidential candidates make the most of celebrity supporters,showing them [...] A helpful post from Nathan at FlowingData New Version of Flare Visualization Toolkit Released Posted Jul 31,2008 to Software,Visualization by Nathan / 3 responses A new version of Flare,the data visualization toolkit for Actionscript (which means it runs in Flash),was just released [...] We've been a fan of the dashbroad approach for a long time because dashboard graphics can give readers a quick snapshot of multiple sets of dynamic data. Charley Kyd,who studied journalism some years back,has developed a nifty plug-and-play package —Dashbroad Kit #1 —to generate these. And below is a recent and relevant posting from Jorge Camoes that gives us some good tips on the topic.
10 tips to improve your Excel dashboard Posted: 26 Jan 2008 06:42 PM CST Posts in the series Excel Dashboard
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