PySB: Biological models in Python

Typically, labor statistics are collected tediously by the staff of Bureau of Labor Statistics by visiting, faxing and calling different stores, offices and online retailers in 90 cities across the nation and getting back nearly 80,000 prices for different items. This costs about $250MM per year and takes at least several weeks to put together….

There are large data-sets that are being generated that are amazingly large, completely open for anyone to use and see and can generate valuable conclusions.   Hapmap is one such grand project. This is made up of participants from US, UK, China, Japan, Canada and Nigeria. Look at the link below to get all the…

Perceptions or assessments of behavior can be difficult to quantify. When attempt is made to quantify specific actions that are perceptions then a scale is used to measure the behavior on a scale such as a Likert scale with values on a 1-5 scale. One such assessment could be an assessment of pain in which…

Walmart as is well known is a big retailer, not just big but massive. They have been a big retailer since a long time and have been processing large data before the term “Big data existed”. The interesting feature about them is that they are about the biggest retailer with a net turnover of $450…

NY Times reported about Mike Flowers, who used quantitative measures to find apartments or buildings that were overcrowded. The typical method was to use random checks in areas or go to areas that had some complaints about overcrowding in the apartments. The hit rate was about 10%, which means less than random and pretty much…