Tag Archives: Research
Ebay as indicator
For those who do not know, the Consumer Price Index is a way of tracking how much your cash will buy. As such, it provides an indication of inflation, at least as it is felt by the average individual buyer. It is calculated by assembling a “market basket” of items that people buy, and then […]
Googlearchy
I’m sure this has been pointed out elsewhere, but in googling some of the folks presenting at the conference, I notice this paper co-authored by one of the presenters: “‘Googlearchy’: How a Few Heavily-Linked Sites Dominate Politics Online” (pdf). This is good stuff. I’ve only given it a cursory glance-through, but I already know that […]
Shrinking news
I off to New York City for the next couple of days for “Media Diversity and Localism: Meanings, Metrics, and the Public Interest.” I’m presenting some research on how successive presidential campaigns were covered in 1992, 1996, and 2000. My analysis looks, very simply, on the totality of word frequencies in coverage for each year. […]
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