Comments on: Oh Google, is there anything you can’t do? http://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/ International development, politics, economics, and policy Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: D. Watsonhttp://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11091 D. Watson Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:10:16 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=4210#comment-11091 Donald Marron has some important notes about using the Google unemployment numbers <a href="http://dmarron.com/2009/09/14/insight-on-google-and-unemployment/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Not sure why that doesn't seem to have gone through so I'll try again. Apologies if I repeated myself. Donald Marron has some important notes about using the Google unemployment numbers here.

Not sure why that doesn’t seem to have gone through so I’ll try again. Apologies if I repeated myself.

]]> By: D. Watsonhttp://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11090 D. Watson Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:07:05 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=4210#comment-11090 Donald Marron has important notes about using Google's unemployment data, though: <a href="http://dmarron.com/2009/09/14/insight-on-google-and-unemployment/" rel="nofollow">see here</a> Donald Marron has important notes about using Google’s unemployment data, though: see here

]]> By: Petehttp://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11083 Pete Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:49:06 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=4210#comment-11083 Hal Varian, and a coauthor I can't recall, have a paper on doing just that for the U.S.. Their model is more accurate than previous forecasting models, apparently. Hal Varian, and a coauthor I can’t recall, have a paper on doing just that for the U.S.. Their model is more accurate than previous forecasting models, apparently.

]]> By: Chandanhttp://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11082 Chandan Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:55:22 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=4210#comment-11082 Amazing! Amazing!

]]> By: Aprilhttp://chrisblattman.com/2010/01/20/oh-google-is-there-anything-you-cant-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11079 April Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:30:04 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=4210#comment-11079 cooooool! cooooool!

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