Natasha Plotkin
@natashaplotkin
Research assistant in Economic Studies at Brookings
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Guy who hires ppl:"There really is something sort of cohesive or binding abt the fact that all of us went to college” nytimes.com/2013/02/20/bus…
Apparently *Russia* experienced greatest drop in labor productivity growth bet. 03-07 & 08-12. Anyone know what's up? economist.com/blogs/graphicd…
"Producing...stress-test results on Dodd-Frank’s aggressive schedule is a singular challenge for even the best-prepared institutions"
Inbox: "Optimize your Dodd-Frank test results" from CoreLogic (business data and analytics firm)
OkCupid founder Chris Coyne hints at the end of this Quora post that the OkTrends blog will be coming back to life! quora.com/OkCupid/How-im…
...based on demographic and ticket data from people who were on the ship. kaggle.com/c/titanic-gett…
There's a fun intro module on Kaggle where you can see for yourself that random forests predict Titanic survivors better than regression
Interview w Jeremy Howard, prez of data science competition site Kaggle, who says random forests make good predictions slate.com/articles/healt…
MT @ryanavent For 20 years inflation has meant more expensive energy, food, homes, and services; prices for *things* flat or falling
Good short summary of the major birth metrics, from the Population Reference Bureau: prbblog.org/index.php/2012…
Are pieces by Gary Marcus supposed to be the @NewYorker's extended apology for Jonah Lehrer? If so I approve
Gary Marcus has been on a roll in the New Yorker recently. His latest on What Neuroscience Teaches Us & What It Doesn't newyorker.com/online/blogs/n…
For policy purposes, however, ratio of working age to dependent population matters most, so the lower birth rate still presents a challenge
The fertility rate controls for changes in the age distribution of women, while the birth rate does not.
Here's the key graph on fertility: it's fallen a lot since the recession but was much lower throughout the 70s: prb.org/Publications/D…
Chris Blattman: "Probably the biggest problem in international development is that it is not anarchist enough." chrisblattman.com/2012/11/29/see…
"In China, 25 Million People Use Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books" Also, China may have world's largest book output theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
theatlantic.com
In China, 25 Million People Use Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books
Mobile reading may revive entire genres of literature, such as mid-length novels and poems, which have fallen out of favor.
That's Claude Fischer on "happiness policy" in the Boston Review bostonreview.net/BR37.6/claude_…
If happiness is top goal, would "an app that stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers be the ultimate policy tool?" bit.ly/YjzYZd
"Must-have jobs skills in 2013" (according to HR managers interviewed in WSJ) sound hard. I'm not just being facetious. online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
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