Archive for March, 2008
Earth Scale Water and Air
I really like this picture. It represents on the left all the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) and on the right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a sphere at sea-level density and shown on the same scale as the Earth. I don’t [...]
Worst Spam Ever
Spotted on boingboing, here is a spam received by Bruce Sterling. It’s worth the look.
Good time of day. You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia. We have the business offer for you. We can offer to you of earnings, thus your salary will make from 1000$ to 2000$ per one month, [...]
Why non-independance test is important in Dyadic analyses?
I’ve finished what I had to do before taking a few days of holidays and I decided to use this time to report on statistical techniques on dyadic analysis. Kenny et al. provided us with a really insightful statistics book on dyadic data analysis and one of the crux aspects considered is the test of [...]
6.6°! The basic constant of social interaction
An interesting Nature.com news presented a study done by two Microsoft researchers on online-chats (MSN messenger). Gathering a very huge amount of data and testing the infamous 6 degrees of overall connectiveness (i.e. that we are only six steps away from anyone else on the planet), hypothesis presented formally by Stanley Milgram in the sixties. [...]
