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Toll Index – July 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
The Toll Index for July shows an expected drop in transportation activity (a further drop is expected in August as well) but still this July is the best (matched only by July 2011) since the creation ...
Toll Index – June 2013 22 Jul 2013 | 06:09 pm
In May German Industrial Production and new orders all went down (follow tweets below). Transportation did not. As far as transportation goes the new Toll Index shows that June was a good month as wel...
On natively born foreigners vs natives born to foreigners 13 Jul 2013 | 01:11 pm
I took the Strassebahn No 16 to Cologne yesterday and sat near the far end of the second car where three young women (two dark skinned and clearly Indian and one less dark skinned) were sitting togeth...
Horizon 2020 – Open Research Data 3 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
I was invited to make a statement to a “European Commission Public Consultation” on Open Research Data which took place on July 2 at the European Commission in Brussels. All in all an interesting venu...
Robot sighting – pharmacy 29 Jun 2013 | 05:17 pm
I was at a pharmacy the other day to order an item. The pharmacist checked availability, reported to me, I ordered and within seconds the item came out of a small dispensing window behind her and it w...
The metaphysics of politics 23 Jun 2013 | 05:37 pm
I found Christine Lagard’s letter to N. Sarkozy (published last week) as weird as the next guy but as I was sitting in the church today listening to the choir where my daughter sings it occurred to me...
Toll Index – May 2013 20 Jun 2013 | 01:09 pm
The Toll Index says transportation activity in May 2013 improved both year on year and month on month if calendar is taken into account. Moreover this has been the best May after the crisis. May is on...
Open Data or Else Scientific Hearsay 18 Jun 2013 | 01:09 pm
Data is the newest of a number of things which we seem to prefer open rather than closed. We always liked open minds and open hearts better than their opposites and we like open doors (at least when o...
Big metadata is a big deal 16 Jun 2013 | 04:55 pm
I spent this past week in Boston, MA with a group of data experts discussing Open Economics Data and (unavoidably) metadata. It was the second such workshop put together by the Sloan Foundation and t...
Greek Public Broadcasting is down! 12 Jun 2013 | 03:37 pm
My two cents for ERT! Yesterday the Greek government shut down the Hellenic Public Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) on a day’s notice! The same corrupt political elite guilty of destroying ERT with year...
