{"word_count": 533, "character_count": 5212}
Interesting econometric posts, here and there, during the past two days, about Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart's paper. All those posts were very informative, about economics and politics, econometrics and datasets, and (publicly) admitting mistakes,the initial paper by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart (published in the AER) http://nber.org/papers/...the answer by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin, see http://www.peri.umass.edu/... published in http://aeaweb.org/...Then Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff did admit Excel mistake (but rebut other critiques) http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/.... But it is clearly more than a fight betwen Excel and R usersSeveral popular economists (on the blogosphere) started to comment, e.g. Timfernholz's http://qz.com/75117/... and http://qz.com/...., Mike Konczal's http://nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/..., Annie Lowrey's http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...,, Dylan Matthews's http:/washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/.... and http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/..., Owen Zidar's http://owenzidar.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/debt-to-gdp-future-economic-growth/, Paul Krugman's http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/... and finally http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/..., Justin Fox's http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/... Tyler Cowen's http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/... and http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/... Among many others. Several blogs and journals did post interesting articles too, "What The Austerity Paper’s Intellectual Collapse Tells Us About Modern Journalism" http://thinkprogress.org/economy/ … and similarly, one should also look at "Is The Reinhart-Rogoff Result Based on a Simple Spreadsheet Error?" http://slate.com/blogs/moneybox/… or "Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies?" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/… (see also http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports/…). One should also read crampell's History of Oopsies in Economic Studies http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...But there were also interesting posts, here and there, on other topics,"The Impact of Social Media on the Dissemination of Research" http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/…[R] "Reproducible plots of public data (Guardian Google spreadsheets, UNdata) using R" http://yanwong.me/?p=483[R] "How to get a data frame from html pages directly in R" http://tomizonor.wordpress.com/…"When your surgery goes wrong, hospitals profit" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/…"Who Stands Where In A Crowded Elevator And Why?" http://ethnographymatters.net/… via http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/…. See also "unusual elevators" http://heworldgeography.com/… via MargRevEconomic bloggers on Future of Blogging with MarkThoma and cshirky both very interesting http://livestream.com/ … via http://digitopoly.org/…"John Kay interview: the mild-mannered prophet of doom" http://theactuary.com/features/… via adelaigue"Navigating From Academia To Science Journalism" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/incubator/… via BoraZ"Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives" http://www.ilo.org/empent/…"Bogus Academic Conferences Lure Scientists" on PopSci's blog http://popsci.com/science/…"Getting Serious about Climate Change" http://economicprincipals.com/issues/… via MarkThoma"Could workload modelling bridge the communication gap between academics and administration?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"The role of statistics in the top public health achievements of the 20th century" http://blogs.sas.com/… by RickWicklin"Junk (filter) science" http://blogs.plos.org/… "4 posts about the principles of climate modelling" via tomroud"Thoughts on the future of finance blogging" http://ftalphaville.ft.com/… on FTAlphaville's blog"Gitmo Is Killing Me" http://nytimes.com/2013/… "I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and 3 months..." via mathewi carr2n ProPublica"How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future" http://techcrunch.com/… by semil via moorehn"Students warned not to get stuck in low-skill jobs" http://independent.co.uk/student/… via cecile_vdv"Acknowledgment from an anonymous doctoral dissertation" http://futilitycloset.com/…avec comme souvent des articles en français,"Peut-on faire confiance aux sondages ?" par Alain Desrosières http://ditionsladecouverte.fr/… (via un vieux tweet d'obouba)"Prends ta pilule plutôt que ton vélo: limites de l'épidémiologie face aux risques peu fréquents" http://lemonde.fr/sante/… ‏via TotoroInParis"Où est passé notre temps?" http://journalmetro.com/plus/…"Alice au pays de l'économie merveilleuse" http://blog.mondediplo.net/…"Et si le patient choisissait le traitement de son choix?" http://slate.fr/story/… via Mlle_Titam"Parcours et réussite en licence et en master à l'université" en France, http://enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid71415/… via OlivierMonod et http://letudiant.fr/educpros/…sur le site ‏LeMondeEcoEnt « E-mails, l’overdose » http://lemonde-emploi.blog.lemonde.fr/…"Les sciences de gestion au miroir de la crise" http://lemonde.fr/emploi/… via Nat_Sanzach"Est-ce que la profession d’actuaire est porteuse?" http://blogues.lapresse.ca/lapresseaffaires/… via J_P_BoucherDid I miss something ?