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May 17, 2013 9:20 AM Ignore the Twitter News Cycle on Scandals

On Tuesday, they were measuring out the president's tomb. Yesterday, with no big revelations on any of the current scandals (or "scandals" as the case may be), liberals at least, and I get the sense much of the neutral press,...

By Jonathan Bernstein

April 30, 2013 12:04 PM How to Make Richard Florida Very Happy

Under the heading, Technology Start-Ups Take Root in Berlin, Mark Scott writes: More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital has gone from a cold war relic to one of the fastest-growing start-up communities....

By Andrew Gelman

April 26, 2013 10:45 AM How Twitter Impacts Voting

Fabio Rojas points me to this excellently-titled working paper by Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen, and himself: Is social media a valid indicator of political behavior? We answer this ques- tion using a random sample of 537,231,508 tweets from...

By Andrew Gelman

April 24, 2013 9:28 AM Why Social Media Ain't Like Real Media

This is the fake tweet (the AP twitter account was hacked) that yesterday caused the US Stock market to briefly lose $200 billion worth of value: While the market recovered afterwards, I take this as yet another reminder that social...

By Joshua Tucker

April 02, 2013 10:21 AM Can We Develop New Apps to Make Government Work Better?

I’m a judge in a new competition sponsored by ChallengePost that seeks new “apps to educate people about partisan gridlock and help empower them to do something about it.”  You can see more details at the link.  There is $5000...

By John Sides