Category Archives: energy policy

Answers to Global Warming/Oil production survey

3 Sep 2008 – 12:31

Questions and answers to the Mechanical Turk survey are below: 1. Please describe what *Climate Change* means to you. The average course or condition of the weather at a particular place over a period of many years as exhibited in absolute extremes, means, and frequencies of given departures from these means, of temperature, wind velocity, [...]

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Useful graphics on oil consumption/production

4 Aug 2008 – 15:05

Why Does Gas Cost $4+ per Gallon? What’s in a barrel? What’s in a price? Price Range Sticker Shock Major Global Trade Routes U.S. Oil Production vs. Consumption U.S. Oil Imports Top Importers and Exporters

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No longer “Drowning in Oil”

1 Aug 2008 – 19:51

From the recent Washington Post article, “This Time, It’s Different” : …a decade ago…conditions looked radically different. Regular unleaded gas was less than a dollar a gallon. Oil was little more than $10 a barrel. And the Economist magazine, predicting prices could soon be half that, ran a cover story with the headline: “Drowning in [...]

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How big is your social network?

1 Aug 2008 – 16:08

I released a survey on social network size yesterday. We’re interested in seeing what correlation (if any) exists between people’s online social network (size) and real life, actual social connections. The survey asks a few short questions for people to answer, trying to stay as specific as possible to reduce speculation and estimating on network/connection [...]

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A tiny bit about energy policy

24 Jul 2008 – 15:47

My new research project with Pete Pirolli will be based on the following hypothesis: Diversity of people and information in social networks will lead users to be better at information discovery and sensemaking tasks. This is proving to be quite tricky to set up properly. But we have decided that our “tasks” will be in [...]

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