Prepare yourself for awesome. Bayesian theory has been around for many years, but the predictive power of Bayesian Model Selection is showing a tremendous amount of promise that might actually offer the social sciences the Holy Grail of reproducibility…
People bemoan the data gap between Democrats and Republicans, but if we can’t get the messaging right the data’s going to be worthless.
Google Reader is dead, your likes say a lot about you, and Pinterest gets metrics.
VentureBeat – News Feed’s design finally catches up with Timeline – Facebook’s new News Feed look should start rolling out to user’s today with a greater focus on the visual and a cleaner look. Kinda looks like Google+. Only with users. Mashable: Facebook Patent Charges Users to Remove Ads From Profiles – In 2011 Facebook…
The Verge: Facebook rumored to launch redesigned, content-specific News Feeds on Thursday – Your Facebook news feed is about to change. Again. Expect about a week or so of people flipping out about the change then returning to their regularly scheduled status updates. Mashable: Google+ Rolls Out Design Changes Ahead of Facebook ‘New Look’ Launch…
Mashable: Twitter Killing TweetDeck for iPhone and Android – TweetDeck an essential platform for many, providing easy publishing to Twitter and Facebook. Now Twitter is pulling the plug on Facebook integration and killing the iPhone, Android apps to focus on web and Chrome apps. The Awl: The Real Weird Twitter Is Espionage Twitter – A…
Well, ok, part of the internet. Twitter in particular: Pew compared traditional public poll results with Twitter sentiment data around eight of the most significant political events over the last year, often finding significantly divergent results. According to Pew, in some instances — Barack Obama’s reelection, the first presidential debate and a federal court ruling…
Politico: Are hashtags a political #wasteoftime? – More thought was probably put into the article than was needed for all of the hashtags it covers. Let hashtags happen. They’re attempts at political bumperstickers in a short attention span medium. For every twenty that flop one starts to trend. Gigaom: Can evil data scientists fool us…
The Jeffersoniads Blog Alliance Launces New Website Site to curate leading right-of-center political thought from Virginia bloggers Richmond, Va – March 4, 2013 – The Jeffersoniads Blog Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, The Jeffersoniads. The new website, launching Monday, March 4, 2013, will serve as a hub for The…