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The Size and Structure of the Howard County Council
It’s been a week since the election and we’re all still digesting the results, I think. Here in Howard County, things mostly slow down. The next big things to happen in Howard County will be two long term processes. First, after the Census, the County will reapportion County Council seats,
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Parallelized Implementation of bootCI for DCchoice
I’ve been helping a small team work on some willingness-to-pay analysis using double-bounded choice survey data. I’ll post more about that soon, but I am writing now to talk about the double-bounded choice models in R. The DCchoice library is really nice and makes the analysis about as simple as
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APL Wins IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge
Bulletin just handed to me! Press Release “Someone once said, ‘It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,’” said Buczak, chief scientist in APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector and the team lead. “That accurately describes the difficulty of making true predictions in the Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge. Well,
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Second Thoughts on the Blockchain Revolution
I am in Phoenix right now and yesterday I gave my talk here at INFORMS. I was invited to talk about blockchain by Natalie Scala and the presentation went well. Unfortunately, my attempt to capture audio crashed and burned, but here’s all you need to know: Blockchain is not the
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What is Covered Under Flood Insurance
Sometimes, you miss things. Back in August, I did an interview with Julie Bawden-Davis for Supermoney! on flood insurance. Click below to learn what flood insurance covers: What is Covered Under Flood Insurance – A Complete Guide Discover what is covered under flood insurance. You may be surprised by what
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Freshwater Risks from Algae Blooms
Here in Maryland, we spend a lot of time talking about eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay, but eutrophication can also be a threat to our freshwater supplies. This has most seriously affected Toledo in recent years. In 2014, Toledo had to shut down freshwater feeds from Lake Erie due to
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Landfills Should Not Pollute the Air and Water
When we put stuff into a landfill, the general expectation is that we will never have to see it again. Of course, it is not that simple. Much of the matter in a landfill is organic, food wastes, paper, and the like, and it will start to decompose. And there
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