Last week, I noted that former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun enrolled 160,000 students in an online computer science class. That inspired him to set up a new company, Udacity, to pursue online education. A new article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek adds some additional color to the story. Barrett Sheridan and Brendan Greeley answer a question many folks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Online Education and Self-Driving Cars
Posted in Internet, Teaching, Technology, tagged Auto, Education, Google, Teaching, Technology, Wired on January 30, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Zanran: Google for Data?
Posted in Data, Economy, Internet, tagged Data, Google, Search, Wolfram Alpha, Zanran on May 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Zanran is a new search engine, now in beta testing, that focuses on charts and tables. As its website says: Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a [...]
Curation versus Search
Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged Curation, Google, Search, Twitter on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I love Twitter (you can find me at @dmarron). Indeed, I spend much more time perusing my Twitter feed than I do on Facebook. But it’s not because I care about Kanye West’s latest weirdness (I followed him for about eight hours) or what Katy Perry had for lunch. No, the reason I love Twitter is that [...]
Google More Popular Than Wikipedia … in 1900
Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged Google, Humor, Wikipedia on December 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Google unveiled a new toy yesterday. The Books Ngram Viewer lets users see how often words and phrases were used in books from 1500 to 2008. Other bloggers have already run some fun economics comparisons. Barry Ritholz, for example, has does inflation vs. deflation, Main Street vs. Wall Street, and Gold vs. Oil. In the [...]
An Unusual Battle Between Amazon and Publishers
Posted in Internet, Microeconomics, tagged Amazon, Apple, Google, Internet on April 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta has a fascinating piece about the future of publishing as the book world goes digital. Highly recommended if you a Kindle lover, an iPad enthusiast, or a Google watcher (or, like me, all three). The article also describes an unusual battle between book publishers and Amazon about the [...]
Now Available in Dozens of Languages
Posted in Blog Admin, International, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, International on March 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Good news for international readers: Thanks to Google Translate, you can now read this blog in several dozen languages. Just click on the language you want in the box to the right. (For those of you reading this via email, Google Reader, etc., here are some example links: German and Spanish.) P.S. Kudos to the WordPress [...]
Google’s Public Data: Much Improved
Posted in Data, Internet, tagged Data, Google, unemployment, Visualization on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Google recently released some major improvements in its public data efforts. If you click on over to Public Data, you will find a much broader range of data sets including economic information from the OECD and World Bank, key economic statistics for the United States, and some education statistics for California. Google has also included [...]
Google and Me, Part II
Posted in Blog Admin, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, Internet on November 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My existential crisis is over. As of last Thursday, Google is again including this blog in its search results. So, welcome to all the new readers who’ve come here after Googling information on the Eggo shortage and the debate about whether kids should get one H1N1 shot or two. This is probably of interest only [...]
Insight on Google and Unemployment
Posted in Data, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged Data, Google, Search, unemployment on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In a series of posts (here, here, and here), I have expressed concern that Google directs its users to what I think is the “wrong” measure of unemployment. For example, if you search for “unemployment rate United States” today, it will tell you that the U.S. unemployment rate in August was 9.6%, when the actual [...]
Google and Me
Posted in Blog Admin, Data, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, Internet, Search, unemployment on September 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A strange this happened last week: Google misplaced my blog. I’ve run all the usual diagnostics, and I can confirm that Google still knows that my blog exists. But it no longer appears in any of the searches – e.g., “natural gas price”, “unemployment”, “budget deficit”, or “brooke boemio” – that used to help new [...]
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