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Very cool, I did the same thing a while back for the Canadian Parliament. Unfortunately, the party discipline in Canadian politics makes it less interesting. It has done in flash, …

I'm just saying that we must be careful citing CSDM numbers because they represent a special situation. The CSDM have a lot of first generation immigrants, poor students, students …

As anything else, the situation is more nuanced. Quebec schools as a whole are pretty good: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/quebe... The problem is that good…

It's still a project from minority government and all institutions/cities can withdraw from it. Montreal(1.65M pop) said that it will not apply the charter in their city. It still …

Right, but there's a subset of Open Access articles from Pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/openftlist/

Not illegal at all. We have plenty of towns with English names.

Author here. What I find really interesting about this map is that the articles seem connected at a local level instead of internationally. When you think about it, it makes a lot …

Very nice and more interesting than the bar charts/graph that other twitter visualization tools give us. It would be really cool (and informative) if you could add a small word clo…

No. Women (and men) are attracted to assertive behavior, not aggressive behavior. Huge difference.

It's not the same data, but I did a PCA with the voting record of Canadian MPs. It's a bit old, so it's in flash instead of html5. You can access it here: http://www.votum.ca

In the video, they say that the water is filtered and chlorinated before going into the cooling system.

This doesn't work on my cellphone's voicemail. I guess the new systems closed that hole.

Nice. It would be very interesting to correlate the migration with unemployment. The outliers (eg: bad economy but migration influx) would be even more interesting. By the way, I d…

Exactly. These phenomena are notoriously non-linear. IMHO, the best way to calculate a good index is to model (usually log-transformed) the relationship between the venture capital…

I really don't like Elsevier, but the alternatives do not really exist. Most open Access aggregators are of dubious quality and don't provide an interface for peer-reviewing. Even …

I really don't like Elsevier, but the alternatives don't exist Most open Access databases are of dubious quality and don't provide an interface for peer-reviewing. Even worst, the …

I'm sure that most big production/distribution houses are not panicking because it's still a new way to distribute content and it's a niche product, but I'm wondering what they are…

I was a market research for a couple of years, and 1,25$ per completed survey is cheap if you don't manage your own panel database. We paid around 3.50$ per respondent (french spea…

It seems I cannot reply to TeMPOraL, but here are some citations: Iyengar, S. 1991. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago : The University of Chica…

Nice, but most visualizations don't take in account the scaling effects present in the data. Most social science systems are wildly non-linear. IMHO, the best way is to try to mode…

We use aho-corasick to extract keywords from terabyte size corpus. Works really well but you have to build your matching tree before.