Shorter: Stata fun but wrong tool.

" The basic trick is that Stata can create transparent graph elements by setting the color to “none”. You do the exact same graph multiple times, you just set colors to be transparent when you want to conceal elements. That is, the code in lines 10–14 is identical to that in lines 17–21 except that lines 13 and 14 set line color to “none” instead of Stata’s standard s2color scheme. "

unspecified social network methods ostensibly applied to 5 days of LulzSec chat logs

" Anyway, the $12/B figure is in print again. This time in a journal published by the American Economic Association. Never mind the only place the figure has ever appeared as original data is in the ever reliable AVN, and AVN’s source is (when asked by an enterprising Forbes reporter) “a pie chart.” "

" Are we really supposed to believe that, despite the fact that we can't find evidence of any meaningful amount of money, there's a vast network of Lex Luther-like porn moguls, living inside underground lairs, filled with stolen antiquities? Or is it something more like China, hysteria, fear, and titillation that leaves common sense and observable facts behind? "

GIS boundaries with an Illinois example

" a website where people can write and repair public web scrapers and invent uses for the data "