Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

The Economist magazine's daily chart of 15 June 2011 was to do with a recent study on the relationship between obesity and amount of ...

There's an interesting piece in the latest issue of The Royal Statistical Society's newsletter, RSSNews . It's about one of Goo...

Last Friday, the OPEC meeting being held in Vienna broke up in what has been widely described as "disarray". A group of OPEC mem...

"Economists are peculiar social scientists not least because they attach enormous value to the publication of articles in the refere...

Earlier this week I had a request to become a "contact" for a particular person on LinkedIn . As this didn't appear to be som...

Last week, in a post titled,  It's a Wonderful Life , I discussed the OECD's recently released  "Better Life Index"  (BLI...

On World Statistics Day , 20.10.2010, the  Royal Statistical Society launched its  getstats campaign. This is a major drive to promote th...

The other evening my wife asked me if tulips are poisonous to cats. I didn't know the answer off hand. The question was prompted by the...

Zanran is to data, what Google is to text. Now in its Beta-testing phase, the new search engine, Zanran , seems certain to appeal to al...

The World Bank has recently released an " e-Atlas " that provides an interesting collection of maps and graphs for a wide range o...