NAVARRO: One
thing is we look at data a little differently.
Not exact matches
Looking at demographic and economic
data, Mandelman and Zlate say that there may
be good reason to believe that the sort of mass movement from Mexico to the U.S. that
was seen in the years leading up to the Great Recession could
be a
thing of the past.
«We have to
look at the white space — big
data, cloud, mobility, the Internet of
Things — and ask, «How are we going to play with those things?»&
Things — and ask, «How
are we going to play with those
things?»&
things?»»
All it took
was hard work, ingenuity and a willingness to
look at the
data and figure
things out.
With all the high frequency
data available these days, like weekly economic
data, and market pricing by the second, it can sometimes
be good to tune the noise levels down and take a
look at some longer term trends to help keep
things in perspective.
We've taken a lot of
things from five years ago that
were finite, old - school methodologies and moved to much more streamlined approaches, [such as]
data polling and the ability to
look at big and small
data.
Joe Twyman of YouGov didn't present any conclusions yet, just went through the
data they
are using and the
things they
were looking at.
What
is the most surprising
thing about viewing global progress through Trendalyzer software, as compared with
looking at the more familiar charts and tables of economic
data?
«The only
thing surprising in the
data is how much the
data from these absolutely brilliant women
look like
data from any group of high - achieving women in general,» says Diane Halpern, the dean of social sciences
at the Minerva Schools
at Keck Graduate Institute in California.
And all of those if we only had Manhattan crime
data, would
be important constraints on
looking at things like policing.
The key
thing is to
look at the climate over long periods of time and not try to find meaning in one weather event, said David Easterling, chief of the Scientific Services Division
at NOAA's National Climatic
Data Center.
«And they do say that they
looked at all the different types of stellar activity and other
things that could generate a spurious Doppler signal
at 11 days, but after
looking at all that, they concluded the variability in the
data is best explained by the presence of a planet.»
«I had begun
looking at a variety of different kinds of
things including genetic
data on different organisms, what they might tell us about what
was going on in Beringia, and I
was aware of other
data on refugia,» O'Rourke said.
«We might use the method to
look at the seismic effects of groundwater extraction, volcanic inflation and all kinds of other
things that we may not
be detecting in the GPS
data.»
I did one
thing that I had not done before and no one else had done, and I
looked at the WAIS subtest
data, where the gains
were there.
The other
thing interesting that I picked up in
looking at WAIS
data was the bright tax.
Because the
thing about a database
is if you
looked just
at the
data, it
's not visually very interesting or you don't really see
things.
«But it
's non-invasive, and once you've done it you can discover
things from the
data that you couldn't learn by just
looking at the plants.»
Re: 98 Satellite
data: Some weeks ago I had a discussion with my American «Deny - aleban» nephew about global warming, and I came across some points of interest, which I think somebody should take a closer
look into: I wrote this to him: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9m66ktqf28mghs/Pil1.pdf?dl=0 and the point of interest starts
at page 6, where I write about the 98 -
thing.
This
is a correlational stufy... it
looks at things that people eat and gathers a whole bunch of
data and tries to make a correlation.
Anecdotes from family and friends
is one
thing, but
looking at objective
data from laboratory and clinical trials
is a whole new world.
The book seems to
be T. Colin Campbell's interpretation of the
data, perhaps involving some cherry picking of the
data to support his views, but Denise Minger
looked at the raw
data and stated «Wheat may
be one of the most toxic
things you could ever put in your mouth.»
Now that we have a national curriculum, I do wonder whether rather than relying so heavily on NAPLAN it would
be better to
look at making sure that we perhaps increase moderation and get more consistency around the assessments that we use within our schools to assess the outcomes of the curriculum that the school students
are working on, and perhaps
look at report card
data and
at strengthening some of those
things.
That sort of research
is incredibly messy and very, very difficult, and, like I said, it
's really difficult sometimes to
be able to partition out certain
things you
're looking at and really prove effectively through the
data you collect that the strategies
are efficacious, so that
's something to keep in mind as well.
The other
thing that
was really quite interesting in the findings
was — and we won't go into this a great deal yet because we've still got a lot of
data to work through — we found that the teachers
were actually, when we
looked at their FMRI images, we found that there
was some difference in how they
were using their brains, but that both of them
were reducing that stress.
But here
's the
thing: Our results
looked strikingly similar to what Smeeding found using old
data at the 125 percent level:
Schools now
are forced to
look at statistics for all the decisions they make, and
data rooms put
things in perspective, said Parlier.
Madison officials aren't drawing any conclusions based on the results, though they acknowledge the questions raised by the results will
be the types of
things they plan to
look at once more years of
data are available.
Researchers will
be looking at this
data for years to come, but for now, one
thing is clear: This time period also saw one of the most dramatic changes in education policy agendas this nation has ever seen.
And parents don't know that our district will
be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP
data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a
thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will
look like everything the Administrators
are doing
at the State's recommendation causes the success.
The first
thing Roughton did when he joined the Val Verde Unified School District
was look at the attendance and absence
data — as well as the districts» attendance policies and practices — to identify areas for improvements.
Looking at achievement - gap
data, Superintendent Runcie said one of the first
things he noticed
was the large number of students
being arrested for misdemeanor offenses they committed in school, such as throwing spitballs, getting into shoving matches, or cursing — and in particular, the disproportionate number of arrests of African - American males.
Accuracy: When
looking at your progress monitoring
data, one
thing to consider
is the student's accuracy.
Jonathan Welch, chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Education, said it
's important to
look at the
data and ask if there
is a better way to do
things.
One of the most interesting
things that
was accomplished under her watch
was looking at the big
data of the Kindle e-Book business to find unsigned authors and push into untapped markets such as fan fiction.
This isn't just
looking at sales rank and calculating how much money people have made, it
's lots more details from Amazon
's own collection of
data, which
is being sold with your names on it to people who don't want to do nice
things for you.
Amy Collins presents Library of Congress, Cataloging
Data, and Bowker, Oh My... posted
at New Shelves Distribution, saying, «There
are things librarians and bookstores
look for in a properly published book.
Another
thing to note
is that
looking at the
data, I
'm sure there
were rolling periods in which the index beat ICA.
Now, if you
look at the graph
at the top of my blog, which
was estimated back in mid-March off of year - end
data, you can notice a few
things:
I've
been asking this
thing,
are investors going to look at this data as it keeps on worsening and say, «Are going to have a new president and then start rallying on the expectation that it's a Romney ral
are investors going to
look at this
data as it keeps on worsening and say, «
Are going to have a new president and then start rallying on the expectation that it's a Romney ral
Are going to have a new president and then start rallying on the expectation that it
's a Romney rally?
There
's probably no competition to speak of if early sales
are to
be looked at, with Modern Warfare 2 breaking every record in the book and all, but with Fils - Aime questioning the game
's ability to sustain those sales, seeing how
things look after January NPD
data arrives, which
is what he
's set as the finish line, should
be interesting.
I won't
be looking at 2015 year month by month, but will rather mention a few
things that happened that
are worth highlighting before sharing slides with the monthly
data for anyone who wants to dig into those in more detail.
Keslin, meanwhile, addressed the amount of credits players can earn offline by saying, «We will
be looking at data continually and make adjustments to make
things as balanced as possible».
On the subject of
things we can do cooperatively, an interesting post
at Grist from Gar Lipow today provides a spreadsheet with
data that
is intended to
be updated based on feedback from people like us — take a
look:
The
thing is, it
's not enough to
look at a 10 year period in isolation and I would certainly hesitate to draw conclusions about multidecadal variability based on 10 years of
data.
Personally I keep
looking at the
data and the
thing I like to watch pretty closely
is the rate of sea level rise.
But,
looking at what the plot that I showed you
is a more robust measure of what
is happening because rather than letting the noise of ENSO dominate
things, it
looks overall
at whether the
data has continued to follow the upward trendline from pre-1998.
If you
are looking dispassionately
at what the
data tells you, then you
are doing the most important
thing right.
What
is stupid or worse
is when people pick out these graphs JoNova - style without
looking at whether they represent the same
thing and say — but you keep changing the
data.
Any IT professional that has
looked at it has said their attitude to
data handling
is appalling... amongst other
things.