“Yes, it can sometimes be possible for a graph to be both beautiful and informative, as in Minard’s famous Napoleon-in-Russia map, or more recently the Baby Name Wizard, which we featured in our article. But such synergy is not always possible, and we believe that an approach to data graphics that focuses on celebrating such […]
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Tolstoy was right about Nick Clegg. After a moment of free will after the 2010 election, he was trapped in the vice of historical necessity.Simon Jenkins
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Stata is to the iPhone as R is to Android, as far as social science data analysis goes. I guess SAS would be BlackBerry, insofar as it’s dated and propped up by a strong lock-in among government employees. And SPSS is a Nokia phone that has a slick interface for dialing your friends but requires you to push dozens of extra buttons
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion – Oscar Wilde i The Soul of Man under Socialism. Jeg forventer dog ikke, at vi i morgen vågner op til et socialistisk London, hvor alle “uromagerne” er kunstnere.
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Stata is to the iPhone as R is to Android, as far as social science data analysis goes. I guess SAS would be BlackBerry, insofar as it’s dated and propped up by a strong lock-in among government employees. And SPSS is a Nokia phone that has a slick interface for dialing your friends but requires
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Et af de sjoveste blogindlæg længe kan findes ovre på Duck of Minerva. Det handler om post-positivister post-strukturalister post-modernister europæiske akademikere. It is not clear to North American political scientists why critical theorists are so critical considering that they live in Europe. It might be because European political scientists are all unemployed. This is because
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What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be. It was commonly thought that the time had come for the world, and particularly for the Third World, to choose between the capitalist
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Using the social to “build buzz” and “push product” is about as smart as using a warp drive to visit your local Wal-Mart. Social tools today are used mostly as a new “channel” to push the same old useless stuff of the industrial era at hapless “consumers.” That’s meaninglessness at it’s finest. It’s the least
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It should be mentioned that there’s another element to the military-industrial complex issue, which he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] didn’t bring up. At that time, in the 1950s, as he certainly knew, the Pentagon was funding what became—a lot of Pentagon funding was going into creating what became the next phase of the high-tech economy at
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Paul Ttereve argues: “Surely the Carroll deal is just the kind of deal that Liverpool should be making. He made a hugely impressive England debut and whilst obviously a diamond in the rough he exhibits all the signs of being a hugely talented footballer and he’s YOUNG too.” Yes, sure. It’s just too much money.
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