INFORMATION THAT AIDS TRAVEL DECISION-MAKING If you type the name of an airline and flight number into Google, it tells you the flight status information: For example, if one types “jetblue 301”, one gets Track status of B6 301 from Washington (IAD) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 24 Jun 2009 – On schedule Departed: 8:02 AM, […]
WHAT DECISION SCIENCE NEWS HAS LEARNED ABOUT JET LAG Since Decision Science News moved to London in 2005, its numerous staff have many trips between the US and Europe. In all of this going back and forth, the DSN staff has figured out how to completely beat transatlantic jet lag. The secret is realizing that […]
CREATE AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED R CHARTS AND TABLES INSIDE WORD & EXCEL Decision Science News’ imagination has been recently captured by an innovative product called Inference for R. (R as in the open-source language for statistical computation.) To use it, you simply insert some code into your Microsoft Office documents. The Inference product connects to the […]
ALL ABOUT REVOLUTION COMPUTING’S R DISTRIBUTION Decision Science News was intrigued by a company called REvolution Computing that got some attention of late for spinning their own mix of the R language for statistical computing and giving it away for free. So DSN asked to interview them to see what it’s all about Decision Science […]
PASSWORD CHART Most of us use the same password for many sites. And most of us have thought that it would be a good idea to use different passwords for different sites. But then many of us fear that if we do this, we are tempting fate to forget or lose some of those passwords. […]
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INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT AMONG STUDENTS Columbia University’s Eric Johnson and Elke Weber have created Teachers4Turnout, a Web site / classroom activity to encourage voting among students. Check it out at http://www.teachers4turnout.org. Here’s how they describe it: The upcoming election is important to us, but even more important to our students. Decisions made by those officials […]
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LEARN VI AND VIM BY WATCHING AND TYPING ALONG For this week, Decision Science News has created a vi and vim video tutorial. (The tutorial is best viewed in your browser’s full-screen mode, try pressing F11 in Windows). Vim is a free and open source editor. DSN highly recommends vim. This tutorial is for absolute […]
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GET A FEELING FOR ACCIDENTAL SIGNIFICANCE Click through to site to try We were exploring Jerry Dallal’s site and came across this cute gizmo linked to as “a valuable lesson”. Clicking the button simulates running 20 significance tests, each of which has a 5% chance of coming up significant when no effect is present. Underneath […]
FIND THINGS FAST ON WINDOWS A good theory of decision making needs to account for the fact that searching for information has real costs. For this reason, decision makers use different strategies when the information is conveniently laid out before them (as in the information-matrix paradigm) and when information is tucked away in memory or […]
