From the neat blog Strange Maps — a map of the U.S. South, overlaying where cotton was picked in 1860 versus Presidential voting in 2008. The claim is that the causal pathway is through high African-American populations.
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This is a blog on artificial intelligence and "Social Science++", with an emphasis on computation and statistics. My website is brenocon.com.
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#rstats Since it's hard to figure this out from its webpage: here's the command to install RPy https://t.co/4mNwaGf8
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annoyed at matplotlib histogram compared to #rstats - I did a comparison http://t.co/T0fW26xu
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RT @gappy3000: One can tell *a lot* about the quality of an empirical paper from the % of text devoted to describing data collection and ...
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- A better Obama vs McCain poll aggregation
- East vs West cultural psychology!
- Link: Today’s international organizations
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- Clinton-Obama support visualization
- Sub-reddit for Systems Science and OR
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- a regression slope is a weighted average of pairs’ slopes!
- Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
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- Quick-R, the only decent R documentation on the internet
- Spending money on others makes you happy
- PHD Comics: Humanities vs. Social Sciences
- data data data
- Graphics! Atari Breakout and religious text NLP
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- Indicators of a crackpot paper
- What is experimental philosophy?
- Data-driven charity
- Race and IQ debate – links
- How did Freud become a respected humanist?!
- Actually that 2008 elections voter fMRI study is batshit insane (and sleazy too)
- Pop cog neuro is so sigh
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- neo institutional economic fun!
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- EEG for the Wii and in your basement
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- When’s the last time you dug through 19th century English mortuary records
- Are ideas interesting, or are they true?
- Cooperation dynamics – Martin Nowak
- China: fines for bad maps
- Cerealitivity
- Washington in 1774
- Happiness incarnate on the Colbert Report
- Evangelicals vs. Aquarians
- "Time will tell, epistemology won’t"
- Richard Rorty has died
- Freak-Freakonomics (Ariel Rubinstein is the shit!)
- "Stanford Impostor"
- Rock Paper Scissors psychology
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- Gapminder.org — terrific world data visualizations
- Random search engine searcher
- Evil
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- Statistics is big-N logic?
- Feminists, anarchists, computational complexity, bounded rationality, nethack, and other things to do
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- Iraq is the 9th deadliest civil war since WW2
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- The Jungle Economy
- funny comic
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- Double thesis action
- A big, fun list of links I’m reading
- Two Middle East politics visualizations
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- Rock, Paper, Scissors
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- Lordi goes to Eurovision
- Drunken monkeys experiment!
- Easterly vs. Sachs on global poverty
- high irony
- The identity politics of satananic zombie alien man-beasts
- new kind of science, for real
- Mark Turner: Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science
- Libertarianism and evolution don’t mix
- academic blogging
- science writing bad!
- Bush approval ratings
- Kurzweil interview
- cognitive modelling is rational choice++
- Submit your poker data!
- Bayesian analysis of intelligent design (revised!)
- searchin’ for our friend, homo economicus
- balkanized USA
- war death statistics
- guns, germs, & steel pbs show?!
- the psychology of design as explanation
- another blog: cog psych and political/social stuff
- a bayesian analysis of intelligent design
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- finding some decision science blogs
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- $ echo {political,social,economic}{cognition,behavior,systems}
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- more argumentation & AI/formal modelling links
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- looking for related blogs/links
- idea: Morals are heuristics for socially optimal behavior
- 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06)
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