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Finding the Global Population’s Equilibrium

Last night’s post brought me a to final question on the population model with which I’ve been tinkering. Will my model converge? There are two ways to answer this question. The first is kinda sorta calculus. To start, we must collapse all those equations from the model into a single function. We can do this [...]

October 16th, 2011 | Category: Offbeat, Other, Research Methodology, Social Science, Statistics | Leave a comment

Forecasting the Global Population

As a follow-up to my recent post on the measurement of the global population using system-dynamic modeling and regression techniques on data from the World Bank, I decided to point my model in the opposing direction. I mean we can use exactly the same model to forecast the population into the future.

To start, we [...]

October 15th, 2011 | Category: International Relations, Offbeat, Other, Research Methodology, Social Science, Statistics | Leave a comment

Measuring Global Population using System Dynamics

For my zombie population dynamics paper last fall, I decided to induce the global effects of an outbreak of zombiism by starting with an empirically accurate global population model. Looking back, that baseline model is a really cool way to demonstrate system dynamic modeling. System dynamic modeling (see here and here) is a process by [...]

October 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Other, Research Methodology | 2 comments

Cybercrime – Can you afford not to ignore it?

Kate Lister posted a piece about the dangers of cyber crime, especially emanating from Russia and former Soviet States, and East Asia. Oh, and West Africa, too.

Yawn.

I’m really sick of these sensational studies claiming that there are zillions of cyber bad guys out there stealing your money one penny at a time. There’s [...]

September 24th, 2011 | Category: Computer Wonkistry, Offbeat | Leave a comment

Presenting the World Development Indicators

I oftentimes find myself wanting to merge economic data with my datasets to control for things or look for relationships. One of the best sources of such data is the World Bank’s World Development Indicators. Unfortunately, almost all of the data I work with on a regular basis is presented in a country-year format, while [...]

August 27th, 2011 | Category: Computer Wonkistry, Social Science | Leave a comment
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