AI and Social Science - Brendan O’Connor

About

This is a blog on artificial intelligence and social science — call it "Social Science++" — with an emphasis on computation and statistics. My general website is anyall.org.

All Posts

• Updates: CMU, Facebook
• quick note: cer et al 2010
• How Facebook privacy failed me
• List of probabilistic model mini-language toolkits
• Seeing how “art” and “pharmaceuticals” are linguistically similar in web text
• Quiz: “art” and “pharmaceuticals”
• Don’t MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language!
• Patches to Rainbow, the old text classifier that won’t go away
• Another R flashmob today
• Beautiful Data book chapter
• Haghighi and Klein (2009): Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
• Blogger to Wordpress migration helper
• R questions on StackOverflow
• FFT: Friedman + Fortran + Tricks
• Road in a forest
• Beta conjugate explorer
• Michael Jackson in Persepolis
• Psychometrics quote
• June 4
• Where tweets get sent from
• Zipf’s law and world city populations
• Announcing TweetMotif for summarizing twitter topics
• Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts
• 1 billion web page dataset from CMU
• Pirates killed by President
• Binary classification evaluation in R via ROCR
• Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata
• La Jetee
• “Logic Bomb”
• SF conference for data mining mercenaries
• Love it and hate it, R has come of age
• Facebook sentiment mining predicts presidential polls
• Can social media prevent genocide?
• Statistics vs. Machine Learning, fight!
• Calculating running variance in Python and C++
• Python bindings to Google’s “AJAX” Search API
• Netflix Prize
• The Wire: Mr. Nugget
• Correlations - cotton picking vs. 2008 Presidential votes
• Disease tracking with web queries and social messaging (Google, Twitter, Facebook…)
• Obama street celebrations in San Francisco
• Twitter graphs of the debate
• Is religion the opiate of the elite?
• Financial market theory on the Daily Show
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Animated
• It is accurate to determine a blog’s bias by what it links to
• Blog move has landed
• MyDebates.org, online polling, and potentially the coolest question corpus ever
• PalinSpeak.com
• "Machine" translation/vision (Stanford AI courses online)
• Fukuyama: Authoritarianism is still against history
• A better Obama vs McCain poll aggregation
• East vs West cultural psychology!
• The MacGyver of data analysis
• Link: Today’s international organizations
• Bias correction sneak peek!
• Turker classifiers and binary classification threshold calibration
• Pairwise comparisons for relevance evaluation
• Clinton-Obama support visualization
• Sub-reddit for Systems Science and OR
• conplot - a console plotter
• The best natural language search commentary on the internet
• Are women discriminated against in graduate admissions? Simpson’s paradox via R in three easy steps!
• a regression slope is a weighted average of pairs’ slopes!
• Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
• Allende’s cybernetic economy project
• Quick-R, the only decent R documentation on the internet
• Spending money on others makes you happy
• color name study i did
• PHD Comics: Humanities vs. Social Sciences
• data data data
• Food Fight
• Graphics! Atari Breakout and religious text NLP
• Moral psychology on Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Will the humanities save us?
• Indicators of a crackpot paper
• What is experimental philosophy?
• Data-driven charity
• Race and IQ debate - links
• How did Freud become a respected humanist?!
• Actually that 2008 elections voter fMRI study is batshit insane (and sleazy too)
• Pop cog neuro is so sigh
• Authoritarian great power capitalism
• neo institutional economic fun!
• Verificationism dinosaur comics
• EEG for the Wii and in your basement
• Dollar auction
• ConnectU.com SQL injection vulnerability: a story of pathetic hubris (and fun with the password ‘password’)
• It’s all in a name: "Kingdom of Norway" vs. "Democratic People’s Republic of Korea"
• When’s the last time you dug through 19th century English mortuary records
• Are ideas interesting, or are they true?
• Cooperation dynamics - Martin Nowak
• China: fines for bad maps
• Cerealitivity
• Game outcome graphs — prisoner’s dilemma with FUN ARROWS!!!
• Washington in 1774
• Happiness incarnate on the Colbert Report
• Evangelicals vs. Aquarians
• "Time will tell, epistemology won’t"
• Richard Rorty has died
• Freak-Freakonomics (Ariel Rubinstein is the shit!)
• "Stanford Impostor"
• Rock Paper Scissors psychology
• Simpson’s paradox is so totally solved
• More fun with Gapminder / Trendalyzer
• Gapminder.org — terrific world data visualizations
• Random search engine searcher
• Evil
• Seth Roberts and academic blogging
• Statistics is big-N logic?
• Feminists, anarchists, computational complexity, bounded rationality, nethack, and other things to do
• Computability and induction and ideal rationality and the simpsons
• Iraq is the 9th deadliest civil war since WW2
• Pascal’s Wager
• When linguists appear on ironic parody talk shows
• The Jungle Economy
• funny comic
• Anarchy vs. social order in Somalia
• Double thesis action
• A big, fun list of links I’m reading
• 4-move rock, paper, scissors!
• Two Middle East politics visualizations
• neuroscience and economics both ways
• Social network-ized economic markets
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Neuroeconomics reviews
• Lordi goes to Eurovision
• Drunken monkeys experiment!
• Easterly vs. Sachs on global poverty
• high irony
• The identity politics of satananic zombie alien man-beasts
• new kind of science, for real
• Mark Turner: Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science
• Libertarianism and evolution don’t mix
• academic blogging
• science writing bad!
• Bush approval ratings
• Kurzweil interview
• cognitive modelling is rational choice++
• Submit your poker data!
• Bayesian analysis of intelligent design (revised!)
• searchin’ for our friend, homo economicus
• balkanized USA
• war death statistics
• guns, germs, & steel pbs show?!
• the psychology of design as explanation
• another blog: cog psych and political/social stuff
• a bayesian analysis of intelligent design
• Statistical inference and social science
• finding some decision science blogs
• Social economics and rationality
• City crisis simulation (e.g. terrorist attack)
• freakonomics blog
• Supreme Court justices’ agreement levels
• $ echo {political,social,economic}{cognition,behavior,systems}
• Modelling environmentalism thinking
• monkey economics (and brothels)
• more argumentation & AI/formal modelling links
• zombies!
• looking for related blogs/links
• idea: Morals are heuristics for socially optimal behavior
• 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06)
• Online Deliberation 2005 conference blog & more is up!
• go science
• addiction & 2 problems of economics
• gintis: theoretical unity in the social sciences