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Reducing complexity

“I’m a firm believer in finding the smartest people you can, and letting them use whatever works best.”

Need something i.e. ideas or data for people to talk about

Technically impressive, but usually not useful for real decisions

Graphic on the data that they have; probably would’ve been a lot easier to read as a grid instead of a circle

Making a bunch of maps using maptools in R; actually really easy once you have the data

Use it to verify your gut feelings

Mobile tech advances; so do possibilities

Need to pay attention to what you’re using as an indicator

What they do and how to hire them [via]

Free course from John Hopkins stat prof; also one on straight-up data analysis

Everybody wins

Or telling vs. exploring

They only do what you tell them to do and nothing more i.e. no software is going to make you a data genius

Interview with Edwin Chen, whose job it is to make sense of tweets

Interesting view that transitions from past to present, weekly to hourly [via]

Lets you make a map similar to in the annual reports

Towards reproducibility in research

Well-deserved. Also see her talk at EyeO this year

“the more academic papers that economists read, the more misguided they’ll become”