Neal Rauhauser: Understanding Syria (Dot Chart & Links to 13 Prior Posts)

Understanding Syria I began reading about Syria literally the day I knew I was done with domestic elections and less than two weeks later I produced my first article. I delved into the civil war, and I checked up on water and wheat, which is something of a proxy for overall food security. . . . …

Neal Rauhauser: Benchmarking Analytic Bridge vs. Data Central

Analytic Bridge vs. Data Science Central I recently spent some time digging into Data Science Central membership, gathering information on about 12,000 members of the site. I started having some profile editing deja vu, went through my bookmarks and unsorted PDFs, and discovered an interesting competition. . . . . . . . . . So …

Neal Rauhauser: On Intelligence & Foreign Policy Analysis — Looking Forward, Looking Behind

Looking Forward, Looking Behind The Democratic Study Group was a 150 staff member legislative service organization(LSO) that had as customers all of the Democratic members of Congress and a good number of Republicans. This internal think tank analyzed policy proposals, serving as an in-house ‘brain’ for Congress. The “Republican Revolution” of 1994 would lead to the …

Neal Rauhauser: DataScienceCentral, LinkedIn, Wrong Tool

DataScienceCentral Users – No Klout Via LinkedIn The retrieval of 11,712 DataScienceCentral profiles completed earlier today. I found about 2,600 instances of ‘linkedin’ when I checked the extract dt/dd files. I rigged up a bunch of awk statements and distilled that down to about 900 DSC userids and the associated plain text LinkedIn userids. I skipped …