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Eric Loeb

Eric Loeb

Of Snake Oil and Dashboards

We create a feedback loop when we inform a policy with a dashboard that is built from data that are sampled from the process impacted by…

Nov 18, 2017

Of Snake Oil and Dashboards

Nov 18, 2017

Eric Loeb

What should progressives do about the ongoing Russian attacks?

Here we are, gripping the edge our seats, wondering if our country’s democratic institutions will be strong enough to withstand the…

Nov 9, 2017

Nov 9, 2017

Eric Loeb

Can we recast citizen engagement as open source development of laws?

Software engineering has been astonishingly effective at applying mass numbers of developers to directed problem solving. Can we use…

Oct 1, 2017

Oct 1, 2017

Eric Loeb

Designing an app to alter social dynamics

I recently recommended that the DoD acquire a free, open source coordinating application that will help increase the size and impact of…

Sep 17, 2017

Designing an app to alter social dynamics

Sep 17, 2017

Eric Loeb

Civic Engagement and Tax Reform

As Congress turns its jaundiced eye toward tax reform, we can hope for simplification while expecting the rewards to go instead to those…

Aug 6, 2017

Civic Engagement and Tax Reform

Aug 6, 2017

Eric Loeb

An Adaptive and Parameterized Control Law for Campaign Finance Reform

Engineered control systems use feedback control and collections of parameterized and/or adaptive algorithms, called control laws. Control…

Jul 30, 2017

Jul 30, 2017

Eric Loeb

New forms of streamed political debate

The formats of our political debates are stale. There are many different ways that candidates for office could engage with each other, the…

Jul 23, 2017

Jul 23, 2017

Eric Loeb

Vignettes from an AI-enhanced district town meeting

I am a fan of the national town meeting, a term introduced by Ross Perot in his 1992 campaign for President. In my view, the national town…

Jul 16, 2017

Jul 16, 2017

Eric Loeb

Cognitive maps of political issues

Life will be better in that fine not-so-far-off day when Science has devised a representation for political issues that is able to capture…

Jul 12, 2017

Jul 12, 2017

Eric Loeb

Neuromorphic Bureaucracies: Space, Time, & Cost

There are several examples of neural circuits that manipulate the fundamental tradeoffs between space, time, and cost. These limitations…

Jul 2, 2017

Jul 2, 2017

Eric Loeb

Eric Loeb

Eric Loeb promotes citizen engagement in politics from the standpoint of his overlapping careers in cognitive neuroscience, politics, and data analytics.

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