PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION ON WHETHER YOUR FLIGHT WILL BE LATE DSN reader Yael sends along this NY Times InTransit piece on Flight Caster, a web site that uses historical data to generate probabilities that flights will be late. DSN likes the following things: The idea of FlightCaster The idea of ubiquitous probabilistic information in the age […]
THE DECISION OF HOW TO SPEND TIME The neatest visualization of the last 30 days has to be this New York Times interactive graphic showing how different groups of people decide to spend their time. It is based on data from the American Time Use Survey. Play with it and read the related article. Decision Science […]
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY With millions of people connecting in online social networks, researchers across academia are racing to make sense of the terabytes of new social data being generated daily. Some folks, like Duncan Watts, have been thinking about social networks for a long time, even before the online variants went viral. […]
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION The headline E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’ caught our attention here at DSN. Reading the article, we see that the study is not about intelligence as a trait being affected by internet interruptions. It simply uses an IQ test as a measure, we suppose, of being able to think clearly. In […]
