Akkam’s Razor

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• Business Dynamics Statistics – Home – The new Business Dynamics Statistics are a product of the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual series describes establishment-level business dynamics along dimensions absent from similar databases including firm age and firm size. The new data series provides researchers with a tool to gain insight into the dynamics of a changing economy.
• Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health? — HBS Working Knowledge – [The] goal is to foster better decisions (paternalism) while preserving choice (libertarianism). Think of parents fashioning choices for children in ways that lead to acceptable choices instead of commanding them to do something.
• Infographics Can Help You Spread Ideas and Attract Attention – Next time when you’re planning on sharing specific ideas or data, consider using infographics. They are a terrific way of making information accessible and a useful primer that will pique the interest of your intended audience. When created and marketed effectively, they can be part of a powerful viral strategy to magnetize attention to your website or business.
• Redrawing the Electoral Map? Not so fast. | Newgeography.com – These data confirm where the major shift took place. Obama had gains of roughly 5-6% over Kerry’s results in suburban counties. Obama won handily in the mature suburbs where Bush and Kerry had evenly split. This is also where much of the non-black minority support for Obama resides. On the other hand, we again see a consistent monotonic relationship between party preference and population density: as we move outward from the urban core voting preferences shift from blue to purple to red. This suggests that the urban-rural split in American politics is still very much with us. This should not surprise us if these political differences are based on lifestyle preferences that do not change from election to election or candidate to candidate.

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