This is a short literature review of recent papers on industrial policy (and related topics)...[Read more]
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Mapping The Manbij Offensive , summer 2016. The (currently ongoing) operation by Syrian Democratic Forces...[Read more]
Bloomberg published a long-form piece on the sale of a “Texas Ranch That’s the Size...[Read more]
Surahammars Ironworks/Surahammars Järnbruk, Sweden, 1919. From Sweden’s Tekniska Museet photo collection. In input-output economics, the...[Read more]
O.g. data scientist and S developer, Richard Becker, gave a shamelessly wonky keynote address on...[Read more]
From the University of Haifa Younes, Soraya Nazarian Library, vis-a-vis Atlas Obscura. The wonderful and...[Read more]
Last year Popular Mechanics and WOODtv reported that a single Amiga has been running non-stop...[Read more]
Delving into the fantastic collection of the Norwegian Municipal Archives of Trondheim, which has some...[Read more]
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library care of Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News A great long...[Read more]
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Using a really powerful library to do something simple. For a current project, I am...[Read more]
Just a quick heads-up: I’ve been using Yhat’s new Python IDE, Rodeo, which is pretty...[Read more]
The Planetary DatArt blog digitized and evaluated the Apollo 11 lunar landing from some a...[Read more]
Caption: "Thermal Map of North America. Delineating the Isothermal Zodiac, the Isothermal Axis of Identity,...[Read more]
Norwegian population settlement in the United States (and Canada) at the turn of the century....[Read more]
Merry Christmas with the Gipper. Nancy and President Reagan, Christmas Eve, 1983. From the Ronald...[Read more]
Make your code understandable. IBM's data center in the 1960s, Toronto. Source:ibm-1401.info/ Heuristics, Hunches, &...[Read more]
Copyright the Nick DeWolf Foundation from their fantastic Nick DeWolf Archive Flickr page here. I...[Read more]
"Wozniakian Destruction" - The History of Phone Hacking & its Influence on 1970s Silicon Valley...[Read more]
I am used to writing code in notepad programs, such as N++ and the fantastic...[Read more]
Data Janitors and Data Carpentry: value in the nitty gritty? "Report on the investigation of...[Read more]
More at chieu-hoi.com. Newly digitized photos from Vietnam war photographer, Charlie Haughey, appearing in...[Read more]
From the St.Louis Fed. Fraser site. "Exhibit 243: Diagram Showing Affiliations of J.P. Morgan...[Read more]
Taking Geospatial Data to R (& how to ditch ArcGIS) For R users it's very...[Read more]
Indonesian President, Soekarno, and USSR's Khrushchev, 1960. Life Magazine. [Read more]
Figure: From the Field Museum archives, 1920, Photographer Herbert P. Burtch, Oriental Institute. "Men moving...[Read more]
Deng Xiaoping speaks in D.C., the year relations between the People's Republic of China and...[Read more]
Workers commute: Hanoi, 1989. [Photo: David Alan Harvey of Magnum Photos, 1989] [Read more]
There's a lot useful R programming that comes out of the Stockholm University economics community,...[Read more]
From the Making Maps blog. Fantastic plots from old sociology research, originally published in Calvin...[Read more]
Singapore, 1967. Location: "North Bridge road just after Capitol theatre." Copyright David Ayer. Sometimes...[Read more]
NYTimes infographics ahead of the times: a 1970s geography of Brooklyn street gangs. From this...[Read more]
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