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Ugly Graphs
This website is painful. It burns my eyes. It contains a plethora of hideous graphs, nearly all 3-d. Its hard to pick the worst, but the one below has to be a front runner.
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ECO 712: Week 8 Readings
Here are the readings for week 8: U.S. Industrial Production Rises in Stabilization SignChina Slowdown Seen Longer Than in Crisis by State Economist
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Wind Visual
An amazing visualization of the wind. The screen capture below is from the morning after hurrican Sandy made land.
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Graphs
Are the meant to enlighten or to mislead? What is the problem with this graph? Does it mislead, or inform?Here are some more.And here is a post on the historical changes in the goals of data...
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Ted Talk Secrets
Here is an article on what makes Ted Talks so great.3. How can anybody learn to tell stories that are as enthralling as a TED Talk? The first thing to know is that there's no one formula or way to give...
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P-Hacking
A reminder of the cult of statistical significance. I fear my teaching sometimes leads students to honor the wrong idols.
View ArticleSkin Cancer Scammer App
From junkcharts:The Wall Street Journal hyped a research article about mobile apps that supposedly "detect skin cancer". While the tone of the article is quite balanced, I cringed when the reporter...
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America's healthcare system is different than every other in the world, and so is our behavior. Take this fact: America consumes 80% of the world opioid supply (99% of the world hydrocodone supply),...
View ArticleSome Links
A few interesting and useful links for Health Econ.1. The sharp slowdown in health care expenditures. How much is because income growth slowed and how much is due to structural changes in the...
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A few interesting links for Health Economics:1. Health Insurance stocks tanked the other day. Apparently the Medicare Part C gravy train is coming to an end.2. Companies invest in self-service health...
View ArticleMisc Health Notes
Some more links for class:1. The variance in the raet of caesarean section births can ot be explained by medical necessity due to high risk births. From a low of 7% to 70% the variance must in part be...
View ArticleDoc Watson
Escape Fire is a CNN documentary on the healthcare sector. An interesting discussion starter. Maybe one proposal for lowering costs is hiring robots. IBM is training Watson to perform diagnostic work...
View ArticleFee For Service
Its far from dead, even if many want it to be. Here is a nice review of the current state of affairs with links.
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A few more links to share:1. Health Inequality Declining?While studies like these are valuable in highlighting disparities between socio-economic groups, they do not tell us much about overall health...
View ArticleMarriage Markets
Lets not forget that what we really do with University education is run a dating service. Ed Glaeser:The college experience is profoundly different from what comes before and after in life. It is when...
View ArticleThe Fed Surprise
As an exercise for the macro student, watch this video starting around minute 30. The video is a brief Q&A with Narayana Kocherlakota, the President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.Then...
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What to expect Day 1. 10 ways it could affect you. Why it happened. And the bigger looming problem of the debt ceiling.
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Germany the Currency Manipulator
Paul Krugman points out that even within the most extreme version of a fixed exchange rate regime - a currency union - one can think about the misalignment of the underlying currencies (even if their...
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Shut Down.
Estimates of the consequences of the shut down. Also checkout MacroAdvisors shutdown calculator and run your own estimates.
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Obamacare
GOPers are afraid of Obamacare, but this is the scariest graph: Paul Ryan's "solution" was to refuse to let it grow, as if this could be stopped through sheer force of will.
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Technically the US has defaulted before...on accident, and it wasn't pretty:Terry Zivney and Richard Marcus describe the default in The Financial Review (sorry, I can’t find an ungated...
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