Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

Apparently, the British Government is planning to create a private data market for personal identity data. There's an interesting ite...

If you're a user of the R statistical software environment (and you should be - if you're not, it's the best free lunch in tow...

Welcome to The Museum of Non-Visible Art ( MONA ). Yes, you read that correctly. So what is this all about? Here's an extract from thei...

In two previous posts ( here and here ) I've taken a look at the OECD's 50 th anniversary present to all of us - their " Bet...

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...