john_horton

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The effects of testosterone on entrepreneurs(cadmus.eui.eu)
2 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
I think working on the funding agencies (i.e., getting them to adopt sensible policies) is the right strategy. For the individual researcher, the incentives for code & data sharing are pretty limited right now, at least until the cultur
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by john_horton 15y ago
It seems like there is little tactical payoff in doing this, as large, foreign militaries would already have detailed, accurate maps covering the whole world, China included. I bet this is an internal-resistance oriented policy.
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Workers as bundled goods(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
3 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
This article is more about how multiple sets of parameters can fit the same data equally well. This is why economists draw a distinction between calibration and estimation. If a parameter is "identified" in some estimation procedure, they m
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by john_horton 15y ago
Strongly second that---USAA is fantastic.
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Facebook Vastly Overvalued, Say Econophysicists(technologyreview.com)
3 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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Some light data munging with R (with an application to ranking NFL Teams)(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
1 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
I'd like the same feature but I don't think it's possible right now. FWIW, I asked whether this was possible on Quora awhile back and got a negative response: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-way-to-make-a-Google+-post-p...
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by john_horton 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why? Wouldn't they have pretty good proxy data on the demand for different skills?
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by john_horton 15y ago
The reason indentation to imply structure doesn't make sense for datasets is that in data analysis you are constantly subsetting and sorting data at the row level---something you generally don't do to the lines of a compter program.
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by john_horton 15y ago
My point was not that this was absolutely hard, but rather that's way too hard for the totally mundane thing I was trying to accomplish---namely getting public data from a US-funded statistical agency into a form suitable for further statis
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by john_horton 15y ago
I'm guessing that's the goal, but it's only going to be as good as the inputs provided by the different agencies. For example, if you look for the time series I was after on data.gov, the "Download CSV" button brings you to...the BLS page,
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It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really simple (onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
63 points by john_horton 15y ago|23 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0
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The McGurk Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by john_horton 15y ago|3 comments
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A contest to predict how experimental subjects will play simple economic games(marketdesigner.blogspot.com)
1 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
According to the Pew Research Center, 89% of people who are not self-employed report being "completely" or "mostly" satisfied with their work; the percentage for the self-employed is even higher, at 95%. http://pewsocialtrends.org/2009/09/
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by john_horton 15y ago
Rather than Saylor decide on what to buy and at what price, I wonder if they could use a kickstarter-like model. If they matched individual donations, they could make their money go further & get some genuine measure of community suppor
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by john_horton 15y ago
no problem & agreed about what probably happened - my point was more that knowing they had that sample size (n=40), someone could have told them that even if Kahn academy was extraordinarily effective, there was almost no chance they'd
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by john_horton 15y ago
In the comments, the authors give the sample size as about 20 in each group. Here's a more sensible graph (error bars to create a 95% CI on the estimated group means): https://skitch.com/johnjosephhorton/fih62/quartz-2 Obviously, there ar
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The Army's Take on Social Networks and Geo-tagging(slideshare.net)
1 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
I think google created a profile for him as a way to illustrate what profiles look like---they mention him in the blog post announcing the change: http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-scholar-cit...
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Claim your publications on Google Scholar and track citations(googlescholar.blogspot.com)
2 points by john_horton 15y ago|1 comments
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Using the Google Visualisation API with R(code.google.com)
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by john_horton 15y ago
I was impressed by the simplicity as well. I think Gale & Shapley's intellectual contribution was not so much in proposing the algorithm, but in proving that a stable match is alway possible (and that this algorithm generates one such m
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Flash game illustrating the Gale-Shapley algorithm(mathsite.math.berkeley.edu)
57 points by john_horton 15y ago|14 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
Great article---I once used the "slopegraph" in a paper to show how the types of gov't contracts (e.g., fixed-price versus cost-plus) is different at each step of the litigation process: https://skitch.com/johnjosephhorton/fjmuc/ssrn-id109
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by john_horton 15y ago
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2000/WHO_CDS_RBM_2000.14.pdf From WHO/USAID report on Malaria detection (executive summary): "In malaria patients, a prompt and accurate diagnosis is the key to effective disease management. The two diagnostic
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by john_horton 15y ago
http://www.quora.com/How-important-is-accurate-diagnosis-in-...

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