There are also several links to a continuing series on How We Shop E-Commerce Is a Boon for Rural America, but It Comes With a Price (WSJ)
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Liberal Arts majors: You’ll catch up!
First of all, major ≠ job. Once again: major ≠ job. If you’re concerned about the major you choose and your pay, this may make you feel better! Good News Liberal Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever…
Learning R and its assignment character(s) leads to reminiscing
Fun historical fact that the “x <- 5” assignment instead of “x = 5” comes from APL. Here’s more from Quora. APL? Yep, I learned that language in a 5-week class at Purdue. Learned C that way, too. Fortran was two weeks…
Stata Resources
From your friend at Marginal Revolution, several books, sites, and resources. (I have also been a fan of Mitchell’s Visual Guide.) (2011) Stata Resources And there’s more! From 2013, Wisconsin’s Introduction to Stata Graphics An interesting package (2011) from Chris Baum…
Brexit: Follow the Developing Story
Follow this blog at the FT for the ins and outs of the difficulties of a Brexit Here’s where it began, before the vote: Can the United Kingdom legally disregarded a vote for Brexit? The latest: Brexit and the challenges of realty…
Reading Chernow’s Hamilton: s and that f-looking character
The Federalist #1 is reproduced in on of the plates in Chernow’s Hamilton. So, what’s up with the s that looks like an f? A quick soundbite from Oxford Dictionaries: Tells us that it “fell out of fashion with printers…
Not just the mean, but variation
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould’s discussion of baseball, and the idea that variability matters. It’s about how much learning a batter can do, too. Why Joe DiMaggio’s 56-Game Hit Streak Is So Enduring (WSJ)
Social Security and thermo and quant — or not
Crunching the numbers on dependents, public and private. Social Security: The Laws of Thermodynamics Still Hold (Quantonomics)
Tennis: Can we have 5, sir?
Just a bit more on the women’s tennis situation. My previous post linked to an article noting, “It’s such an old discussion. Really. We said in 1973, and we continue to say in 2014, we’re ready, willing and able to…
More on gender equity — from the racket
In the question of gender equity, it has been tennis, and American tennis that has led the way. Battle of the sexes: charting how women in tennis achieved equal pay (The Guardian) There’s more to the story, including a woman…