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...conspicuous fact with our [Case-Shiller] data is that prices are still falling, although at a somewhat lower rate. There is also some sign of pick-up in pending-home sales. But to me the dominant fact is that prices are still falling. We've never seen a real estate market turn on a dime. For the longer horizon, though, it's possible that we are picking up. The other thing that is striking is that home prices have come down a lot, so they're no longer very overpriced...
Compared with Veratect, Google Flu Trends' metric is somewhat simpler. From 50 million potential search topics, Google engineers narrow down a relevant grouping of flu-related search terms, which they track each fall at the start of the annual flu season. When analyzed side by side with CDC records of confirmed flu cases for the past five flu seasons, Google Flu Trends was 97% to 98% accurate in tracking the disease. And because Google's analysis is in real time, its estimates of cases come about a week or two before those of the CDC. "Each flu season...
Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon's miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless...
...season. Pretty much everybody underperformed, starting at the top: Haviland and Vance each put up the worst numbers of their collegiate careers. Only after the Crimson hit rock bottom, skidding to a 1-7 start in league play a 2-22 record overall, did the team finally appear somewhat motivated, playing .500 ball the rest of the way.A season in which Harvard finished so far from reaching its originally lofty goals has to be considered a failure. At the onset of 2009, expectations for the Crimson were more tempered. Haviland and Unger were gone, leaving sophomore Max Perlman?...
...percent—may not reflect a real change, but rather result from a higher student response rate to post-graduation surveys in 2008, casting doubt on the accuracy of the numbers that have fueled the debate.Still, Director of Degree Programs Joseph McCarthy says the numbers are somewhat concerning.“When that percentage [of students entering the private sector] begins to rise above one-third of our graduates, it makes me a little uneasy,” he says. “But it does fluctuate from time to time.”McCarthy adds that he thinks...