Brian Brush, a graduate student in urban planning at Columbia University is researching the viability of parametric design tools in urban planning practice and is seeking basic feedback from design professionals. Please consider filling out this quick survey if you are interested.
Urban Studies Conference Alerts provides a useful list of opportunities to present your research. But the list is dominated by international events. Can we create (crowdsourcing?) a similar list focused only on the conferences in the United States? Does such a list already exist? By being focused on the U.S., the list can feature even [...]
Webometrics analyzes about 15,000 universities around the world and ranks 5,000 on their ‘web performance’ based on the institutions’ proclivity for a significant web presence. The criteria was determined by a weighted combination of visibility (external inlinks), size (web pages), rich files, and Google Scholar availability [via]. Their aim is to promote web publication and [...]
One of the first things I noticed when I came to the United States for my graduate education was the ubiquity of online resources. The Internet back home in India was still a novelty and its potential for educational resources was extremely limited. Questia Online Library is an example of one such online library that [...]
John Ioannidis at PLoS Medicine writes: There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims. However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false. Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution presents the basic idea [...]
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