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by zissou 12y ago
Glad you're enjoying Open Torque Viewer. It's my creation. :)
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by zissou 12y ago
What are you talking about? Did you even look at their section on job search? It is most definitely a macro application. Disregarding the fact that job search is a subtopic of unemployment, one of the main concepts in macro, you'll not
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by zissou 12y ago
I thinks it's great that 2 well known economists with household names in the academy have taken to marketing programming to economists. I just wish they would have called this venture something other than Quantitative Economics when th
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by zissou 12y ago
You bring up a good point in that the use cases for each language varies. R is a good example because one of the main reasons it is chosen is due to the fact that it already has the largest set of drop in econometrics operations for tons of
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by zissou 12y ago
I used to be gung-ho about convincing economists to use Python (started econpy.org in the 1st year of my PhD in economics, stopped updating it after 2 years). But now I just don't care. The vast majority of economists are horrible prog
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by zissou 12y ago
A case of self-selection, of course.
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by zissou 12y ago
I have been researching the used car market for the last year in an academic lab. I would love to share stories about data collection and management if Carlypso folks are interested. Not looking to be a consultant or being consulted or any
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by zissou 12y ago
I've done a Google Ngrams API that generates plots in XKCD style here: https://github.com/econpy/google-ngrams and a webapp version with slightly more advanced XKCD tweaks here: http://xkcd.culturomics.
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by zissou 13y ago
Thanks for the info and I do look forward to the new API! However my question still remains with regards to historic posts/comments. The historic aspect is really the import element here. Generally speaking, building an ngram viewer re
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Ask PG: HN Ngram Viewer?
8 points by zissou 13y ago|3 comments
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by zissou 13y ago
eBay's completed listings is definitely one of the best applications of obtaining sales data on the Internet that I'm aware of. Besides that, in some cases there are ways to imperfectly estimate quantities when best seller ranking
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by zissou 13y ago
Economist and long time web scraper here. In your original business model you wanted to understand the price of everything. In what ways did the problem of a lack of information on the demand side come up? That is, it is easy to scrape the
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by zissou 13y ago
As a long time pandas user, I'd say this is one of the better write-ups I've seen that illustrates the versatility and functions of the Series and DataFrame objects without being too long winded. Just one thing to point out regard
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by zissou 13y ago
Confirmed about the generational decline: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=by+and+large&y...
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by zissou 13y ago
Minor in economics. Skip on taking extra macro classes and instead take as many econometrics and micro that you can. Economics (or another quantitative social science) is often the missing ingredient for a solid data science background. Sur
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by zissou 13y ago
Although not primarily in the discovery space, if you're a user of arXiv, you may be interested in the n-gram viewer our lab made: http://arxiv.culturomics.org
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Saab is alive again. NEVS Saab pre-production has started(saabsunited.com)
1 points by zissou 13y ago|0 comments
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by zissou 13y ago
Despite this clip being a classic classroom example in a game theory course, it's technically not a prisoner's dilemma, for a couple reasons. First, in the PD the players cannot communicate. The ability to communicate makes it m
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by zissou 13y ago
Porsche is owned by the Volkswagen Group who has a completely different strategy than Tesla. Volkswagen already makes money off makes and models marketed across the spectrum of consumers (from Skoda to SEAT, VW, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamb
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by zissou 13y ago
I'd encourage any economist that has a knack for programming to really put in some time towards the area. I've owned econpy.org for about 3 years now (although I haven't updated it in a long time). I also own economics.io and
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by zissou 13y ago
Damn, just when I leave Harvard, Schneier comes to town. Would have loved to do some work with him on security theater.
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by zissou 13y ago
Fun fact about Aeroflot: The slogan for Aeroflot back in the days of the USSR was "You Have Made The Right Choice" , which is ironic since Aeroflot was the only airline in the Soviet Union.
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by zissou 13y ago
Detailed examples of the model of failure described in the post are bound to be few and far between because of the massive selection problem. People who fail are way less likely than people who succeed to to tell the Internet about their ex
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by zissou 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, as a general statement I support free markets. However, Keynes' thesis (which is misinterpreted 96% of the time I hear someone talking about it) was simply that sometimes there is an economic argument for gover
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by zissou 13y ago
University of Arizona
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by zissou 13y ago
The underlying reason I think most DSGE models are absolute hogwash is that they do economics backwards. Economics is supposed to test theories against data. Instead, in the world of calibration in macroeconomic models, the creator of the m
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by zissou 13y ago
There are some truths in this article -- for example, it is generally true that economics PhDs don't have a hard time finding jobs. Don't want or can't get an academic job? No problem, there are plenty of consulting/industry/government jobs
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by zissou 13y ago
Like the wise scholar in England wrote, I'm most productive after a nap but before I go to bed. Is taking a nap then "going to bed" later basically the same thing as a 2 sleep night? I think naps are a good modern example of a 2 sleep night
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by zissou 13y ago
Happy to finally see an intro to data science article that puts statistics as the #1 skill. While software engineering is also important, all the engineering in the world won't help you extract any meaningful insight from data without a sol
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by zissou 13y ago
'I Pencil' was first introduced to me in a History of Economic Thought class during undergrad. Still love the story if not only because of the message it delivers. Who cares how it is written, 'I Pencil' is a story about how trade, comparat

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