Bias in Federal Reserve Inflation Forecasts: Christopher Gandrud uses ggplot2 to visualize potential partisan bias in US Federal Reserve inflation forecasts as a PhD student at the London School of Economics. [Read more...]

There are quite a few books out now on “data science”. I’ve picked out three that I think are the best place to start for computational journalists. First is Machine Learning for Hackers, by Drew Conway and John Myles White. The autho... [Read more...]

Dave Backus points me to this review by anthropologist Mike McGovern of two books by economist Paul Collier on the politics of economic development in Africa. My first reaction was that this was interesting but non-statistical so I’d have to either post it on the sister blog or wait ... [Read more...]