Jacob Christensen

I just finished my last scheduled class in Umeå – the final seminar on the Methods 101 course. Now only the marking of the methods papers and D-level essays remain.

A little strange as it could be my final university level class as well.

• Slate Magazine – The Steakhouse Index

  If you want to understand how high energy prices are impacting the economy, you could spend your days reading the Wall Street Journal or consulting with economists. Or you could go have a really expensive New York strip steak at the Palm or Morton’s.

  (tags: economics energy environment cooking)

• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Eurovision: bloc voting or cultural clusters

  Eurovision has been studied by academics a couple of times by now: Derek Gatherer titled his paper “Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest Simulation with Actual Results Reveals Shifting Patterns of Collusive Voting Alliances” and Anthony Dekker has a pape

  (tags: academic statistics music culture humor)

• LO och valet 2006

  För att ur ett fackligt perspektiv analysera valnederlaget för socialdemokratin 2006 och för att utvärdera den fackliga valrörelsen beslutade LOs styrelse den 16 oktober 2006 att tillsätta en valanalysgrupp.

  (tags: sweden politics labourmarket socialdemocracy elections)

• How Scoble reads 622 RSS feeds every morning

  (tags: Google rss aggregator blog web2.0 webdesign internet technology)