We describe a visualization of statistical analysis of news data, specifically the headlines of the New York Times. We detail its implementation and its integration with our existing collaborative visualization framework. We then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the visualization and outline a number of further directions we wish to take this project. Author

We increase the lexical coverage of FrameNet through automatic paraphrasing. We use crowdsourcing to manually filter out bad paraphrases in order to ensure a high-precision resource. Our expanded FrameNet contains an additional 22K lexical units, a 3-fold increase over the current FrameNet, and achieves 40% better coverage when evaluated in a practical setting on New York Times data.

When I read your term papers, I look for your ability to motivate your question using economic logic, your ability to critically analyze the past literature, and your ability to recognize empirical problems as they arise. In particular, it is important that your term paper demonstrates that you are more knowledgeable, analytic, and sophisticated about the economics of health or development econ...

Massive downgrading and defaults during the 2008/2009 financial crisis have led politicians, regulators, and the popular press to conclude that the rating agencies’ business model is fundamentally flawed. The popular argument goes as follows. Issuers of securities naturally prefer higher ratings for their issues, because these reduce their cost of capital. Because the issuer pays the rating age...

The Blacksburg Electronic Village1 was an early example of a Web-based community network. The project achieved mass-media notoriety by projecting the image of an idyllic but isolated rural community pioneering the electronic frontier of totally wired life. Early high points were coverage of the project by the New York Times on January 16, 1994, and by NBC Nightly News on February 10, 1994. The ...

On a spring evening two years ago, Steve Kaufman, a wiry 18-yearold whose plain-featured intensity reminds one of Dustin Hoffman, hurried across the Stanford University campus to what he thought would be an interesting and enjoyable experience. He was headed for Jordan Hall, where the department of psychology is housed and where he had been receiving training as a hypnotic subject, preparatory ...

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The Times graphics department has won many national and international awards, including the National Design Award for communication design. Learn how graphics editors report, design and edit data visualizations, integrate interactivity with story telling, and explain the news. How do basic ideas from journalism — including the importance of editing — influence the graphics the Times makes? Bio ...

Fiona R. Gell* and Callum M. Roberts Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK *Email: Fiona Gell [email protected]