Tag Archives: gas prices

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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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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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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gas and mileage stats for my Honda Civic (2007)

15 Jun 2008 – 18:10

Since I bought my Honda Civic last January (2007), I’ve been recording my odometer, gallons filled, and gas price every time I filled up. My parents got me in the habit of recording these numbers a long time ago, and even though I resisted keeping track of this at first, it actually provides an interesting [...]

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