Toward a theory of Marginal Revolution, the blog

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Housekeeping
• 3 Exploratory Data Analysis
  • 3.1 What about some descriptive stats?
    • 3.1.1 Word Count Histogram (vertical line indicates mean):
    • 3.1.2 Comment Count Histogram (vertical line indicates mean):
• 4 Comparative Plots
  • 4.1 Hypothesis 1: Are posts getting longer (or shorter) over time?
  • 4.2 Hypothesis 2: Do longer posts indicate more (or less) comments?
  • 4.3 Hypothesis 3: Cowen contributes more often, but Tabbarok often has long posts. Does the data confirm?
  • 4.4 Hypothesis 4: Cowen receives more comments, as he blogs more often and has more of a following:
• 5 Machine Learning
  • 5.1 Feature cleaning:
  • 5.2 Random Forest

Once again, here is the link.  There are excellent visuals and histograms, the programming is there too, and again that is from Will Nowak.  And here is an updated version of blog content.

Anthony Goldbloom pointed me to this, and is involved in the larger project, and I thank also Erik Brynjolfsson for an introduction.