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by mikk14 9y ago
Sure, I can concede that -- and by the way I still concede that data sharing done right should be done in social and medical sciences too. However, he put in the introduction of his post a warning about his field, as if he expects that his
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by mikk14 9y ago
There is a seminal paper showing how carelessly adopting this point of view can lead to disasters: "87% of the U.S. population is uniquely identified by date of birth, gender, postal code" [1] In many other cases, as pointed out,
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by mikk14 9y ago
People here seem to attack only the argument about "anyone can write a blog", but I was expecting HN to give a couple of thoughts also about his first point. To me it reads something like: "publish all your data out in the op
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by mikk14 9y ago
The majority of the papers citing it that I checked (including the two you have linked yourself) makes the citation for the idea of the method (using epidemiology models in the context of social media), not for the results.
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by mikk14 10y ago
About the ball sport thing, you might find inspiring the story of Ian McKinley. He's a rugby player who got blind in one eye as result of a playing accident. He still competes professionally: https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by mikk14 10y ago
Legend says that in the streets of Naples they used to sell white T-shirts with a black band to simulate the seat belt :-)
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by mikk14 10y ago
Just a quick note pointing out that also Darwin and Einstein did 99.9% incremental research. Natural selection and evolution were well known concepts before the Origin of the Species, and so it was relativity. What Darwin and Einstein provi
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Network Backboning with Noisy Data(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 10y ago
He, it's a bit funny your last remark, unless it's tongue in cheek on purpose. It's akin to say "I have mixed feelings about crashing with my car. On one hand I got to my destination really fast, on the other hand I died
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Exploring the Uncharted Export(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 10y ago
Nigeria is not the wealthiest country in Africa, not even close. They have the highest GDP just because they have twice the population of the second most populous country in Africa. If you look at GDP per capita, they're barely scrapin
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by mikk14 10y ago
It is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned. http:/&
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It's Not All in the Haka: Networks Matter in Rugby Too(michelecoscia.com)
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Building Data-Driven Development(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 10y ago
There is a nice Minute Earth video about this, for those who want a quick and entertaining way to get the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4
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by mikk14 10y ago
That is a heavily-filtered network: if he didn't drop most of the weak connections he'd end up with everything connected to everything else. On the other hand, if you don't use a sophisticated way to define what a "noisy
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by mikk14 10y ago
Meh. Netflix would not affect piracy because their offer is very small. Netflix is good if you're an American and not very into movies. As soon as you are looking for something outside the "very mainstream" you're out of
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by mikk14 11y ago
I'm not a native speaker, but I have some US colleagues who write really poorly. I'm not saying this is the rule, nor that your friend was a bad writer, but the argument that a native speaker is de facto superior in the use of her
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by mikk14 11y ago
Yeah, it is rather unfair to point your finger against a reviewer's comment without having a look at the paper too. I've come across papers for which some of these comments would be even too kind. This blog is funnier if you'
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by mikk14 11y ago
The problem arises when you ask yourself the question: "Where does this customer education stops?". Of course it is better to have a public competent in buying insurance, food, housing, financial products, health treatments, etc..
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Data Trips Diary: Bogotá(michelecoscia.com)
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The Limited Power of Telecommunication(michelecoscia.com)
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Evaluating Prosperity Beyond GDP(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 11y ago
Man, I instead always wished for a non-American centric realistic city building game. Where you start not from 1800-something, but from 0 AD or earlier. As eras go by you get new buildings and requirements (reinvent your roads for cars, dis
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Mathematics Genealogy Project(genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu)
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by mikk14 11y ago
If it makes feel you better, it doesn't matter. Last day I was comparing the ingredients of the whitening vs non-whitening of another brand (don't remember which), and not only the active ingredient was the same, it was also prese
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Mathematics Genealogy Project(genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu)
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by mikk14 11y ago
Not sure if I completely agree. The problem, as I see it, is that corporations are one of the most important data collectors out there, and sometimes most accessible. Personally, I am doing research with data from supermarket chains, credit
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Central Places and Sophistication(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 11y ago
You are free to be adamant about that. I wonder what gives you this confidence though. I hope it's something more substantial that contradicting witnesses speaking decades after the fact and a pistol who passed dozens of hands. Certain

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