[gov3009-l] No applied statistics this week

Hi all, I'm sorry to let you know that we won't be having Applied Statistics this week due to speaker illness. We will, however, be back and ready for action next Wednesday, 3/2, when we have Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden presenting their exciting recent paper in Science, "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books." If you haven't seen this work, you can take a look at their website for culturomics to learn more: http://www.culturomics.org/ Be sure to check out the Google Ngram Viewer, which is based on their work: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ Cheers, matt. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew Blackwell PhD Candidate Institute for Quantitative Social Science Department of Government Harvard University url: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~blackwel/