Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Exploring the Nexus of Big Data and Official Statistics
While it might seem natural for so-called Big Data to supplement, improve or replace existing datasets and statistics, or provide entirely new statistical outputs for government agencies, some careful footwork is needed before heading too far down that path, argues Rob Kitchin.
Robert E. Evert on Empirics in Family Business Research
[We’re pleased to welcome Robert E. Evert of Texas Tech University. Dr. Evert recently published an article in Family Business Review with […]
Democracy’s Statistician: Janet L. Norwood, 1923-2015
Unflappable and nonpartisan, the late economist Janet Norwood blazed a path as a pioneering female statistician and bureaucrat who served multiple presidents as the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’
The arrival of a report calling for the British government to better support social science has raised questions about the role, responses and responsibilities of a ‘public sociology.’
Former Deputy Takes Over Bureau of Economic Analysis
The former deputy director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis has been named to head the federal organization that produces the benchmark […]
It Matters When Science is Misunderstood
A much-shared screed against various types of science –including, predictably, most social science–has James Dyke scratching his head and quoting Wolfgang Pauli: ‘This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.’
Statistics’ Crisis of Reproducibility
After Big Data, one of the most controversial topics in statistics workshop is the problem of reproducibility in scientific research.
Big Data: No Free Lunch for Protecting Privacy
In the first of a series of excerpts from a just released report summarizing 2013’s International Year of Statistics’ London conference, we look at one of the down sides of Big Data.
