I thought I would ask the SO community on helping me with a project that I am currently working on. I need to model the price for a widget in a market situation. The price for the widget should be a result from the current supply and demand. Users will be able to buy and sell the widget at the fixed price. As users buy the widget the dem...
Can anyone point me towards any references that attempt to formulate an economics of software development? In my own research, I discovered a book by Barry Boehm on this, but it seems very awkward and theoretical. Dependency Structure Matrices seem to offer something worthwhile. Carliss Baldwin has used these in some work on modulariz...
Joel mentions in several of his blog posts that it is very important for a developer/software entrepreneur to have solid understanding of Economics. Yet the Fog Creek MBA book reading list does not include any Economics books. Is there any good material that people can recommend? Obviously, I am not as concerned about mathematical treat...
In my company we often value the software to be almost the same as concurrent software on the market. While this is one way I'm interested of other (maybe more academic) ways of value and put a price on software. Any ideas or methods that have been succesful for you? ...
I've often found myself pondering lately if I should invest some time into learning more about economics and marketing just to better understand arguments of non-technical co-workers. Another benefit is that I would be able to better convey why we should implement a feature in this or that way in a manner that doesn't sound all geeky and...
Many websites today (including stackoverflow) and games allow people to perform voting, give feedback, enable additional features etc, according to a score: eg. reputation, or MMORPG credits. As a programmer that will probably need to implement a community based website in the near future, I am interested in knowing about the existence ...
Hello! Usually players in a soccer manager game have market values. The managers sell their players in accordance with these market values. They think: "Oh, the player is worth 3,000,00 so I'll try to sell him for 3,500,000". All players have three basic qualities: strength value (1-99) maximal strength they can ever attain (1-99) mo...
I was wondering if there are any opensource libraries that are geared towards transportation ben/cost analysis. I currently use microBENCOST and would like to build my own solution. I'm most comfortable with C/c++ and Python. cheers ...
I'm getting odd behavior (it generates only missing values) from the following loop - foreach x of varlist name { egen totalcapx'=total(cap) if unit!=0 & name=="x'", by(year) } But if I were to do just egen totalcapSOMENAME=total(cap) if unit!=0 & name=="SOMENAME", by(year) then it computes the numbers that it's sup...
I do most of my programming as one-off work ("scaffolding" code for testing, data analysis, etc.) for a small company + have benefited a lot from open-source software projects over the past 5-10 years. Many of the libraries I've used are free and have saved my company money. I don't have the time/skills to give much back to these proje...
Does Google track my coding habits to show Google ads in their search if i use any their hosted JavaScript framework? ...Or is there some other reason for them to host these? What is the benefit to them from hosting these frameworks? ...
I have a big panel of data from Compustat. To it I am adding some hand-collected data (seriously hand-collected from a stack of old books). But I don't want to hand-collect for the entire panel, only a randomly selected subset. To find the larger set (from which I'm randomly selecting) I would like to start with the balanced panel from C...
I'm a College student (Economics) and I want to program some monetary models using Neural Networks. I want those models to be able to predict future values of some variables using economic data, but I really don't know how to "model" the program itself. Is there any good Python module for that? I mean, a module for NN and a module for ec...