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• Hill Times Column on Vote Switching and Non-Voters

  
  Pundits' Guide — Authority: 420
  While we were all busy covering the by-elections, the Hill Times was kind enough to publish a column of mine yesterday. Its reprinted here with kind permission. Byers’ formula fails in his own province Michael Byers recently urged the Liberals and NDP to strike a one-time deal where each party would stand down ...
  10 hours ago

• Seasonally Adjusting Unemployment

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  Floyd Norris points us to one of the foibles of seasonal adjustments: How SA can make things look better or worse at various times of the year. He is referring to the Non-Farm Payrolls data from Friday. Comparing non seasonal apples to apples, the data was somewhat better than usual. This is very similar to the ...
  19 hours ago

• On the Prevalance of H1N1

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  In Seattle recently, I met a pulmonologist who said that the H1N1 virus has him busier than he’s ever been, his hospital beds full of flu patients. The uptick hit particularly hard about 10 days ago, he said. How has the flu been playing out across the country?
  20 hours ago

• On the Prevalance of H1N1

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 764
  In Seattle recently, I met a pulmonologist who said that the H1N1 virus has him busier than hes ever been, his hospital beds full of flu patients. The uptick hit particularly hard about 10 days ago, he said.How has the flu been playing out across the country?
  20 hours ago

• On the Prevalance of H1N1

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  In Seattle recently, I met a pulmonologist who said that the H1N1 virus has him busier than he’s ever been, his hospital beds full of flu patients. The uptick hit particularly hard about 10 days ago, he said. How has the flu been playing out across the country?
  20 hours ago

• Measurement Issues Arising from the Growth of Globalization

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  These are the papers presented at the conference discussed earlier: Session 1: Services Offshoring Chair: Kenneth Ryder (NAPA) “ Measuring the Impact of Trade in Services: Prospects and Challenges ,” J. Bradford Jensen (Georgetown University and Peterson Institute for International Economics) ...
  1 day ago

• Fixing Misleading Official Data

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  “We don’t have the data collection structure to capture what is happening in a real time way, or what is being traded and how it is affecting workers. We have no idea how to measure the occupations being offshored or what is being inshored.” -Susan Houseman, senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for ...
  1 day ago

• Cheat Sheet: Beyond Advanced Excel

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 469
  OK, so you’re really good with Microsoft Excel.  You can write bi-conditional nested if statements and vlookups that make peoples head spin.  You’re the only person in your tri-county area that can make a dynamic pivot chart with multiple vertical axes that retains its formatting.  Maybe you’ve even created ...
  5 days ago

• My Blog Method, Your Blog Method

  
  Fuelmyblog - The blog for the exclusive blog community. — Authority: 98
  I have more blogs than I can count but basically, there are 3 I really work with. One of them is an online diary where I address the issues of my life as well as blog stats. For over a year now I have blogged there about a blogging method I dreamed up. It isn’t perfect but it’s a method I could do all that time. ...
  1 week ago

• Individual Defensive Efficiency Ratings Extracted from Play-by-Play Data

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 489
  In my last post I presented individual offensive efficiency ratings that were extracted from play-by-play data . In this post I will present individual defensive efficiency ratings that I have extracted from play-by-play data. As with the individual offensive efficiency ratings, I’ve constructed these individual ...
  1 week ago

• The best data is free data

  
  Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing — Authority: 422
  I’m currently researching some data for a budgeting and savings planning calculator for one of our clients, and during the course of my research, I’ve been struck once again by the wealth of free data that is available to every citizen in the UK at the click of a few links. As digital marketers I’m sure none ...
  1 week ago

• Remotest Place on Earth

  
  GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Authority: 493
  Researchers at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank have mapped out the world according to its remoteness.  Their model looked at how long it would take to travel from any given point in the world to the closest city of 50,000 residents or more.  The model looked at all ...
  1 week ago

• An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making: Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas Arthur Williams, David Ray Anderson

  
  Make Money Myself — Authority: 139
  Editorial Reviews Intended for business professionals and managers who would like a better conceptual understanding of the role of management science in the decision making process, this book blends problem formulation with managerial interpretation and maths technique. About the Author Thomas A. ...
  1 week ago

• PPC: The Wrong Way to Improve Efficiency

  
  RKGBlog — Authority: 116
  A classic mistake in paid search management is turning off the ads that “don’t work.” I made the case previously that almost any keyword “works” if you pay the right amount for the traffic, acknowledging that the right amount might be pretty close to zero if the words are poorly targeted. Nevertheless, ...
  1 week ago

• MICA announces post graduate programme in Delhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), known for its post graduate courses in advertising, marketing research and communications, has announced the launch, through video conferencing, of a certificate programme in research and analytics in New Delhi aimed at marketing ...
  1 week ago

• Tutored But Still Confused

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 508
  I got some ARIS tutoring today and learned how to find middle school transcripts. Youd think that if they wanted us to use this system, someone would teach all the little ins and outs. The first thing I did was look up Mervins record. I was surprised to see passing grades next to almost all his subjects after what ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breakdown of Single Family Homes by Price

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 709
  Later this morning, the Case Shiller Index gets released. In the meanwhile, let’s take a closer look at the breakdown of home sales by price. It is rather instructive as to the state of both the housing and credit markets: This is a relatively new NAR data series, started several months ago. There’s no readily ...
  2 weeks ago

• How do I automagically display trending of complex data?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  I need some suggestions for data analysis and displaying trending information. At the moment Im doing this with a huge amount of Excel pivote tables. The goal is to highlight increasing trends and top hitters in some sort of (semi)automated way. The catch is that the data is pretty deep. For example, say I have a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Individual Offensive Efficiency Ratings Extracted from Play-by-Play Data

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 489
  I’m unsatisfied with the usefulness of individual efficiency ratings that estimate the offensive and defensive impact of a player on a lineup’s efficiency by simply controlling for the strength of teammates and opponents. This is because these ratings don’t really give any insight into what the individual ...
  2 weeks ago

• Understanding Seasonal Adjustments

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  Following my rant about the putzes at NAR, a few people asked me to better explain the Seasonality Adjustment issues. Here goes uthin: I certainly understand that we have to do seasonal adjustments. We cannot report that Retial Sales fell 80% in January for obvious reasons, but most of all because it is ...
  2 weeks ago

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