Archive for august, 2007

Applied Social Network Analysis: Marvel universe

mandag, august 27th, 2007

Love it when geeks flex their muscle:P. M.Gleiser has authored this study (pdf link) about the social networks of heroes and villians in the Marvel Comic book universe (MU). The text is quite technical - but the conclusion is straight forward:
We discussed possible mechanismsthat lead to these effects. In particular the rules of theComic Authority […]

Misc. kool, social network analysis (SNA) | No comments

Excellent analysis: Denmark as a non-innovative, boring succes - dependant on US

fredag, august 24th, 2007

Will Wilkinson from CATO is always a favourite read. Pertaining to the debate about tax cuts he has an excellent post.

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Ikke kategoriseret | No comments

Can you make me an complicated survey-like site?

torsdag, august 16th, 2007

I need a veritable copy of the functionality found here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Anyone who can do this? Choice of technology (asp.net ; php, pearl etc.) is not important.
contact me if interested

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Ikke kategoriseret | 2 comments

Eftersøgning: Student bekendt med R, LaTeX, php/asp og (my/ms)SQL

tirsdag, august 7th, 2007

Jobopslag, ledig stilling: Kender du en student i kbh. området som både kan programmere serverside applikationer og kender til R og Latex? Let me know…

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Skillz, tools, data, CMS | 2 comments

Brain on sleepmode; blissfull TV-show

tirsdag, august 7th, 2007

I guess it’s pure bad taste and lack of judgement. Anyhow - the dresden files - I’ve been watching some episodes to fall a sleep. And it works… Not half as good as dexter (recommended!)… Not quite Harry Potter - but its a show.

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Moviea and TV-shows | No comments

Vision of Humanity - a slight critique

fredag, august 3rd, 2007

I very much like the Vision of humanity project. It’s an interesting alternative to e.g. freedomhouse rankings. However - it seams to me that there is a systematic bias that I don’t care much for.In calculating a nations peace index the number of external wars fought (indicator 1 and 2) as well as military expenditure […]

development, happiness, Freedom of speech, economics, Human rights, political, social capital | No comments

Your morals?

fredag, august 3rd, 2007

Jonathan haidt (author of The happiness hypothesis) has a website running: It’s called yourmorals.org. At the site you can test your own belief and compare your results to others. It’s very much like martin Seligmans page.
While discovering things about your self - you also contribute to science. My result one the first test:

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psychology | No comments

Digitizing books one word at a time…Why not sentences?

torsdag, august 2nd, 2007

The good folks ask:
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make […]

data, data mining, csr, recommendations, great sites, Misc. kool | No comments

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