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Data and Blogging

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

Ah Friday, a great day to do final edits on my and Julie's paper for Midwest – also a good time for a quick blog post with a somewhat misleading title as the two subjects refer to two seperate links. First, via Freakonomics, is a competition for the Fraser Institute to have them collect data. You write up the brief that suggests what they collect and, if you are in the top 6 suggestions, they pay you. Time to go through my bin of thoughts that usually begins with "If we had data for…" and ends with "we could then Continue reading Data and Blogging→

700 Fresh Posts to read…

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

Traveling for Thanksgiving gave me the opportunity to abandon my daily reading schedule and come back to a stockpile of new posts to read. The highlights thus far from the last 5 days: – Flowing Data has a chart contest. The winner receives two Tufte books. Entries are due on Friday. – Andrew Gelman has a interesting stroy of his undergraduate academic years that lead to his publishing a paper from those days over two decades later. If only my undergraduate work was methodologically related to my background now. – Rodger at The Duck of Minerva watches the History Channel; Continue reading 700 Fresh Posts to read…→