Exam: Nice Demo City, But Will It Scale? (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)
Three-Toed Sloth 2013-03-18
Summary:
In which we compare the power-law scaling model of urban economies due to Bettencourt, West, et al. to an alternative in which city size is actually irrelevant.
This was a one-week take-home exam, intended to use more or less everything taught so far.
Assignment, master data set (each student got a random subset of this)