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State Finance, Partisan Control and Citizen Outcomes: What’s the Connection?
State Finance, Partisan Control and Citizen Outcomes: What’s the Connection?
In the U.S.’ two-party system, increased polarization has renewed attention to ‘Red’ vs. ‘Blue’ states, exemplified by the feud between…
Andrew Pederson
May 16, 2023
Designing Our Urban Future
Designing Our Urban Future
The World Health Organization found in 2014 that 54% of the world’s population lived in cities and projected that urban populations will…
Andrew Pederson
Apr 26, 2017
Words with Feeling
Words with Feeling
Sentiment Analysis in the Age of Trump
Andrew Pederson
Feb 1, 2017
Transforming Evidence-Based Policy from Theory to Practice
Transforming Evidence-Based Policy from Theory to Practice
Andrew Pederson
Feb 22, 2016
David Bowie, Beat Poetry and Human Evolution
David Bowie, Beat Poetry and Human Evolution
Andrew Pederson
Jan 27, 2016
What’s Eating You? Probably Software
What’s Eating You? Probably Software
When we sometimes hear that “software is eating the world,” the specific implications can be difficult to describe before they occur and…
Andrew Pederson
Jun 16, 2015
Two Data Science Visual Aids
Two Data Science Visual Aids
Data science is challenging many organizations to upgrade their IT infrastructures, and this can be a painful and confusing process. After…
Andrew Pederson
May 20, 2015
Information Overload
Information Overload
As my work has shifted more heavily into food and agriculture over the last few years, the sheer amount of information available for any…
Andrew Pederson
Mar 3, 2015
Shankur Vendantem on Motivated Cognition
Shankur Vendantem on Motivated Cognition
Author and NPR Social Science Correspondent Shankur Vendantem has an interesting perspective on the cognitive neurological basis for…
Andrew Pederson
Nov 11, 2014
Evidence Based Sustainability: “Fair” Trade’s Challenge
Evidence Based Sustainability: “Fair” Trade’s Challenge
This month, I’m excited to have a piece in Supply Chain Management Review discussing mounting evidence that Fair Trade has little proven…
Andrew Pederson
Nov 6, 2014
What Should $80 Billion Teach the Public about Hunger?
What Should $80 Billion Teach the Public about Hunger?
While federal transparency policies have given us sprawling new government “open data” sites, stark disagreements about what information…
Andrew Pederson
Sep 17, 2014
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