Daniel F. Moore

» The Internet Age That Vanished.

That’s right. Digital media lasts forever. Or until a new format comes around. How easy is it to see the data on even just an old zip disk you might have laying around?

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» Joe: No Go On "Public Option"

Good for Sen. Lieberman:

“If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it,” Lieberman said following an hour-long confab with public-health experts at the Ashmun Street community center of the Monterey Homes public housing complex. “That’s a cost we can’t take on.”

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» Data Analysis - Simple questions to ask when you read about a study

A list of good starter questions anybody should ask whenever they hear about a “statistical” study. There are plenty other that should be asked - such as, are there enough data points to draw any real conclusion from this?

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» Creating a Frequency Distribution with a Pivot Table

I can’t believe I didn’t know about this trick before… one hiccup is that all the values in the underlying data column have to be numeric (no #VALUE’s or anything of the sort). But such a small speed bump to create useful histograms!

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“ For two weeks, the world has been transfixed by images of Iranians taking to the streets to demand the most basic human freedoms and rights. Watching these courageous men and women, I am reminded of a similar scene nearly two years ago in Burma, when tens of thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully marched through their nation’s streets. They, too, sought to reclaim basic human dignity for all Burmese citizens, but they were beaten back by that nation’s harsh regime.

— Laura Bush - Do Not Forget Burma

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“ Power is above all else a relationship. Power’s relation to needs is what defines it. The means used to fulfill a corresponding need constitutes power, and also suggests the potential for future forms of fulfillment. Since these needs are manifested in objects outside of man, he needs these objects to express his powers. But since man is part of nature, he too is an object; thus the reciprocal power-relationship of each man to all other men is based on a mutual recognition of each other’s needs.

— James Der Derian

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» Palin Responds To Sen. Kerry Joke: "Why The Long Face?"

Heh. If you wonder why Gov. Palin is as popular as she is, it’s because she’s so at ease when speaking and keeps a sense of humor about matters political…

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» New York to Pay Women Who Give Eggs for Stem Cell Research

Commodifying stem cells… isn’t this exactly what we were told wasn’t going to happen?

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Awesome graphic

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Two different views of state-wide same sex marriage support based on the exact same data (or You can tailor your graph to support whatever conclusion you want to draw).

The chart on the left has the mid point between blue and red set at 50% support for same sex marriage. Only 8 states have that. The chart on the right sets the mid-point at the state in the middle of all the other states (Michigan at ~41%).

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