Ben Davies

Suppose I sample values uniformly at random from the unit interval.

Fafchamps et al. (2010) describe a model of team formation in which people learn about potential collaborators via existing collaborators.

My previous post used degree-preserving randomisation (DPR) to control for network structure when estimating the effect of edge noise on nodes’ centrality rankings.

Suppose I want to rank the centralities of nodes in a network.

My current project at Motu involves analysing co-authorship networks.

I recently updated the R package nberwp to include data on NBER working paper authorships.

The first book on my reading list for 2020 was Matthew Jackson‘s The Human Network.

Motu’s staff Christmas party is this Friday.

Since 2005, Forest and Bird has run annual elections for New Zealand’s Bird of the Year.

I spent most of October travelling in the United States.

Last year I organised a dialogue on climate change adaptation within New Zealand’s transport sector.

Earlier this year Grant Sanderson, creator of the YouTube channel 3blue1brown, posted a video explaining how Fourier series approximate periodic functions using sums of sines and cosines.

Today I published nberwp, an R package providing data on NBER working papers published between 1973 and 2018.

Last week Nature published “Information Gerrymandering and Undemocratic Decisions,” an article analysing the effect of peer influences on the outcome of collective decisions.

Suppose I have some data that describe a bipartite author-publication network.

Today I updated the motuwp GitHub repository, which stores data on Motu working papers and their authors.

In my last post, I compared measures of similarity among college degree fields.

In my last post, I used the 2016 ACS PUMS data to analyse how educational attainment and degree field choices vary between demographic groups.

Each year, the US Census Bureau publishes a set of Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files containing responses to the American Community Survey (ACS).

In December 2018, the New Zealand Government announced that its ministers “will for the first time release details of their internal and external meetings.”

I recently wrote an article for Asymmetric Information summarising my paper with Dave Maré on the relatedness and complexity of economic activities in New Zealand.

Strava is an online platform for storing and sharing fitness data.

The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) is a podcast hosted by comedian and mixed martial arts (MMA) commentator Joe Rogan.

Earlier this year I joined Motu, an economic and public policy research institute based in Wellington, New Zealand.

In this post, I use R’s igraph package to analyse the cohabitation network among wild Pokémon species.