More resources for learning R

A couple of MOOCs are starting up related to data mining and statistics in R.  I won't sign up for the MOOCs but I will likely watch through many of the associated videos that are nicely collected on youtube.  The videos are broken up into nice little chunks (10-20 minutes) on specific topics.

Check them out here (data mining) and here (statistics).

Reminder for where to get my working papers

I will likely have posts when I add papers, but I want to remind everyone that my working papers are generally available at SSRN.  Soon, this will include my APSA paper on trust in the EPA and fracking,  I give co-authors a veto on posting working papers, but that is the only thing that stops me from posting all of my papers.

Quick review of my APSA panel on trust and accountability in government

This last weekend was the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago.  The good news is that there was some excellent research in the public administration section (as well as others).  The bad news is that the allocation of panels to the public administration section was tiny.  We have a lot of work to do to increase the footprint of the section in the APSA.

I was happy to participate in a great panel (first thing Thursday morning) to a full room -- totaling about 10 chairs.  The overall topic was trust and accountability in administrative agencies and my comments are after the break.