"Results suggest great promise of the idea of obesity monitoring through real-time Google Trends data", note the authors, which would be "particularly attractive for government health institutions and private businesses such as insurance companies".
What that policy agenda entails will be a subject of future columns. 1 Data note: The second chart shows the "impulse response" function for a one-standard deviation positive shock on the labor slack variable — "ungap" — from a VAR (vector autoregression).
So I built a simple statistical model of the compensation share of national income, one that basically correlates a bunch of variables and then lets you see how variable Y changes when you tweak variable X (see the data note below for details).
(One other important data note: The Census income data leaves out capital gains, which other inequality analysts find to be very important in tracking the full extent of income inequality — thus, this data understates recent gains at the top of the scale).
This data note describes an 18-subject EEG (electroencephalogram) data collection from an experiment in which subjects performed a standard visual oddball task.
Fig. 14 Differences between GGM-derived geoidal heights and GPS/leveling data (note mean values are removed).
include the relevant control data; (note that the important Figure 2 is ignored by all, as described below).
These are big boring ugly businesses – but they have a hell of a lot of data (note to all startups not concentrating on creating some kind of data!).
The upper panels summarize the Twitter data, the lower panels summarize Zachary's data (note that the gatekeeping and representative roles are indistinguishable because this network is undirected).
You can filter by business model — so far only LinkedIn is listed as "selling data" (note: you don't necessarily need to "sell data" when you own your own ad network, like Google, Facebook and TechCruch owner AOL).
The Redpepper ad agency claims to be beta testing a camera on the outside of a "Nashville business" that automatically checks patrons in to a location and offers them deals, after users have given the company access to their Facebook data (note: this was developed independently from Facebook).
