2015
Java and IDEs for the R/Python world
2014
Replot: departure delays vs flight time speed-up
What the ACL-2014 review scores mean
Scatterplot of KN/PYP language model results
2013
tanh is a rescaled logistic sigmoid function
Response on our movie personas paper
Probabilistic interpretation of the B3 coreference resolution metric
Some analysis of tweet shares and “predicting” election outcomes
Movie summary corpus and learning character personas
What inputs do Monte Carlo algorithms need?
Rise and fall of Dirichlet process clusters
R scan() for quick-and-dirty checks
Wasserman on Stats vs ML, and previous comparisons
Perplexity as branching factor; as Shannon diversity index
2012
Graphs for SANCL-2012 web parsing results
Powerset’s natural language search system
CMU ARK Twitter Part-of-Speech Tagger – v0.3 released
Berkeley SDA and the General Social Survey
The $60,000 cat: deep belief networks make less sense for language than vision
F-scores, Dice, and Jaccard set similarity
Cosine similarity, Pearson correlation, and OLS coefficients
I don’t get this web parsing shared task
Save Zipf’s Law (new anti-credulous-power-law article)
2011
Bayes update view of pointwise mutual information
Be careful with dictionary-based text analysis
CMU Twitter Part-of-Speech tagger 0.2
Good linguistic semantics textbook?
How much text versus metadata is in a tweet?
iPhone autocorrection error analysis
Log-normal and logistic-normal terminology
Rough binomial confidence intervals
Poor man’s linear algebra textbook
Please report your SVM’s kernel!
2010
How Facebook privacy failed me
2009
List of probabilistic model mini-language toolkits
Seeing how “art” and “pharmaceuticals” are linguistically similar in web text
Quiz: “art” and “pharmaceuticals”
Don’t MAWK AWK – the fastest and most elegant big data munging language!
Patches to Rainbow, the old text classifier that won’t go away
Haghighi and Klein (2009): Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
Blogger to WordPress migration helper
FFT: Friedman + Fortran + Tricks
Zipf’s law and world city populations
Announcing TweetMotif for summarizing twitter topics
Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts
1 billion web page dataset from CMU
Binary classification evaluation in R via ROCR
Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata
SF conference for data mining mercenaries
Love it and hate it, R has come of age
2008
Facebook sentiment mining predicts presidential polls
Statistics vs. Machine Learning, fight!
Calculating running variance in Python and C++
Python bindings to Google’s “AJAX” Search API
Correlations – cotton picking vs. 2008 Presidential votes
Disease tracking with web queries and social messaging (Google, Twitter, Facebook…)
Obama street celebrations in San Francisco
Is religion the opiate of the elite?
Financial market theory on the Daily Show
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Animated
It is accurate to determine a blog’s bias by what it links to
MyDebates.org, online polling, and potentially the coolest question corpus ever
"Machine" translation/vision (Stanford AI courses online)
Fukuyama: Authoritarianism is still against history
A better Obama vs McCain poll aggregation
East vs West cultural psychology!
Link: Today’s international organizations
Turker classifiers and binary classification threshold calibration
Pairwise comparisons for relevance evaluation
Clinton-Obama support visualization
Sub-reddit for Systems Science and OR
The best natural language search commentary on the internet
Are women discriminated against in graduate admissions? Simpson’s paradox via R in three easy steps!
a regression slope is a weighted average of pairs’ slopes!
Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
Allende’s cybernetic economy project
Quick-R, the only decent R documentation on the internet
Spending money on others makes you happy
PHD Comics: Humanities vs. Social Sciences
Graphics! Atari Breakout and religious text NLP
Moral psychology on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Indicators of a crackpot paper
2007
What is experimental philosophy?
How did Freud become a respected humanist?!
Actually that 2008 elections voter fMRI study is batshit insane (and sleazy too)
Authoritarian great power capitalism
neo institutional economic fun!
Verificationism dinosaur comics
EEG for the Wii and in your basement
It’s all in a name: "Kingdom of Norway" vs. "Democratic People’s Republic of Korea"
When’s the last time you dug through 19th century English mortuary records
Are ideas interesting, or are they true?
Cooperation dynamics – Martin Nowak
Game outcome graphs — prisoner’s dilemma with FUN ARROWS!!!
Happiness incarnate on the Colbert Report
"Time will tell, epistemology won’t"
Freak-Freakonomics (Ariel Rubinstein is the shit!)
Rock Paper Scissors psychology
Simpson’s paradox is so totally solved
More fun with Gapminder / Trendalyzer
Gapminder.org — terrific world data visualizations
Seth Roberts and academic blogging
Computability and induction and ideal rationality and the simpsons
Iraq is the 9th deadliest civil war since WW2
When linguists appear on ironic parody talk shows
Anarchy vs. social order in Somalia
2006
A big, fun list of links I’m reading
Two Middle East politics visualizations
neuroscience and economics both ways
Social network-ized economic markets
Easterly vs. Sachs on global poverty
The identity politics of satananic zombie alien man-beasts
Mark Turner: Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science
Libertarianism and evolution don’t mix
2005
cognitive modelling is rational choice++
Bayesian analysis of intelligent design (revised!)
searchin’ for our friend, homo economicus
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
Statistical inference and social science
finding some decision science blogs
Social economics and rationality
City crisis simulation (e.g. terrorist attack)
Supreme Court justices’ agreement levels
$ echo {political,social,economic}{cognition,behavior,systems}
Modelling environmentalism thinking
monkey economics (and brothels)
more argumentation & AI/formal modelling links
looking for related blogs/links
idea: Morals are heuristics for socially optimal behavior
1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06)
Online Deliberation 2005 conference blog & more is up!