This has been one of the hardest projects I've taken on.
I've never been asked to do this. It's just...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Through an economic lens: the nexus between migration and the human trafficking industry
Human Trafficking can easily be confused with migrant smuggling, but they're not the same; if anything,...
Monday, March 9, 2015
Robert Kosara on the value of illustrating numbers
Robert Kosara shared some valuable insight on the way numbers are illustrated when using visualizations....
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Understand the different aspects of Human Trafficking
From Human Trafficking.org:
Sex Trafficking: Victims of sex trafficking are often found working...
The Well-being of a Human Trafficking victim
Victims of trafficking in humans can be found in a variety of situations, so I will provide a list...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
How King v. Burwell can negate the current Healthcare landscape
It seems there's always something about Obamacare (formerly known as the Affordable Healthcare Act)...
Blogger: How to Customize Status Bar
The status bar of Blogger or Blogspot is that rectangle shaped figure shown at the top of the ticket...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
We all search for truth, when you think about it...
Just because someone holds a belief does not in anyway mean they should be left alone to it. That...
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Don't forget inflation!!
What if the US gets caught in the deflationary whirlpool that Europe is currently in? Pervasive economic...
Friday, February 27, 2015
Not all about Supply and Demand: the case of oil prices
It wasn't long ago when we thought oil was a scarce commodity in the US. Now we have more oil in our...
Friday, February 20, 2015
Un- and Under-researched topics in (Counter-) Terrorism Studies
An article by Alex P. Schmid lists 50 topics in the field of (counter-)terrorism that are either un-researched or under-researched. Im not going to list them all here, but there are a few that caught my eye.
ISIS vs. al Qaeda: comparing and contrasting organizational structures.
ISIS's rise to infamy was rather fascinating. In 2014, they took over portions of Iraq and were aiming to achieve their goal of a caliphate. The world definately took notice, and ISIS might have...
Friday, February 13, 2015
Gretl: Picking between stacked time-series and stacked cross-sectional formats
When you're doing panel data regression in GRETL or any statistical software, you need your data formatted...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Migrations and Diasporas of New York
A fascinating NYT post describes our migration patterns to and fro each state.
The migration data is...
Monday, January 26, 2015
The basic logic of Non-linear Modeling: Binary Outcomes
Non-linear regression is very similar in spirit to linear regression and the general linear model....
Friday, January 9, 2015
Visualizing the Middle East
A neat interactive graphic by Information is Beautiful depicts the network relationships among the...
Sunday, January 4, 2015
8 ways a college gap year can benefit you
When I graduated college, I decided to take a gap year from school. It’s not because I was tired...
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