Tag Archives: data

Mapping the worlds rivers

Bernhard Lehner my geography colleague from Burnside Hall at McGill has recently released HydroSHEDS a new global map of the worlds rivers.  Maps based upon this data were featured in the March issue of National Geographic. HydroSHEDS is: a new … Continue reading

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short links: open data, candian census, and merchants of doubt

1) An Open Data Litmus Test: Is There a Download Button from Off the Map In order for any data to be open you need to be able to download the data so that you can remix, reuse and share … Continue reading

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Short Links: Climate change economics and impacts, dealing with data, and analyzing social networks

Paul Krugman writes a popular article in New York Times Magazine on climate change economics. Nature reports on how Marine Reserves can be a ‘win–win’ for fish and fishermen.  Our colleague Terry Hughes research is mentioned. Nature Reports Climate Change … Continue reading

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Andrew Gelman’s statistical lexicon

On his group’s weblog, influential Bayesian statistican Andrew Gelman proposes a statistical lexicon to make important methods and concepts related to statistics better know: The Secret Weapon: Fitting a statistical model repeatedly on several different datasets and then displaying all … Continue reading

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