2nd Gretl Conference

Eng.Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Department of Econometrics and Statistics and Toruń School of Banking are pleased to invite for  2^nd Gretl Conference held at The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Nicolaus Copernicus University, between 16-17 June 2011, Toruń, Poland.

Tr.Nicolaus Kopernik Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonometri ve İstatistik Bölümü ve Toruń Bankacılık Okulu 16-17 Haziran 2011 tarihleri arasında Nicalus Kopernik Universitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Toruń, Polonya'da yapılacak olan 2.Gretl konferansına davet etmekten memnuniyet duyar.

Major crisis still ahead, past one was minor/Büyük krizler hala önümüzde, geçen kriz küçüktü.

Eng.Senior Research Scholar at Yale University Immanuel Wallerstein believes that the real economic crisis is still up ahead. According to Wallerstein, last years collapse was its minor version. For further readings you can have a look to his offical web site http://www.iwallerstein.com

Tr.Yale Üniversitesinden Kıdemli Araştırmacısı Immanuel Wallerstein, gerçek ekonomik krizin hala önümüzde olduğuna inanıyor.Wallerstein'a göre son yılların çöküşü gerçek ekonomik krizin yalnızca küçük bir uyarlamasıydı. Daha ileri okumalar için http://www.iwallerstein.com resmi internet sitesine bakabilirsiniz.

A Special Report On Managing Information From Economist

Feb 25th 2010 | From The Economist print edition The article has a short section on technology used for such applications, including this on R: "A free programming language called R lets companies examine and present big data sets, and free software called Hadoop now allows ordinary PCs to analyse huge quantities of data that previously required a supercomputer. It does this by parcelling out the tasks to numerous computers at once. This saves time and money. For example, the New York Times a few years ago used cloud computing and Hadoop to convert over 400,000 scanned images from its archives, from 1851 to 1922. By harnessing the power of hundreds of computers, it was able to do the job in 36 hours." It's nice to see the open-source combination of Hadoop and R getting recognition as the engine behind many such large-scale problems in predictive modeling. The Economist: A different game

Living Library

The Living Library works exactly like a normal library - readers come and borrow a 'book’ for a limited period of time. There is only one difference: the Books in the Living Library are human beings, and the Books and readers enter into a personal dialogue. The Books in the Living Library are people representing groups frequently confronted with prejudices and stereotypes, and who are often victims of discrimination or social exclusion. In this library, Books cannot only speak, but they are able to reply to the readers' questions, and the Books can even ask questions and learn themselves.