Almost 20 years ago, in a paper introducing the text mining (TM) technique to my fellow statisticians, I expressed the fear that: “it would be unfortunate that this technique, because it is apparently so easy to use, would be abused by incompetent analysts” (Lahlou, 1994, my translation)....

Ces résultats sont tirés de travaux réalisés au Crédoc (Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie), dans le département "Prospective de la Consommation", par Joèlle Maffre, François Yvon, Marie-Paule Bayol, Frédéric Oble, avec la participation de Isabelle...

Digitization of society raises concerns about privacy. This article first describes privacy threats of life-logging. It gives the technically novice reader a quick overview of what information and communication technology (ICT) is currently preparing for society, based on state-of-the art...

This ‘‘Note from the field,’’ is an edited version of a policy brief summarizing the key findings from the first half of the Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange network (SCORE!) for the policy programs in the field of sustainable consumption and production (SCP). We recommend a...

[spa] Suicidio y ritmos sociales - Además de los vínculos estudiados en el artículo anterior, la estadística pone de manifiesto la regularidad en la frecuencia de los suicidios. Dicha regularidad fué evidenciada hace un siglo; tal es el caso con el incremento del número de suicidos en la...

To examine whether four pre-selected front-of-pack nutrition labels improve food purchases in real-life grocery shopping settings, we put 1.9 million labels on 1,266 food products in four categories in 60 supermarkets and analyzed the nutritional quality of 1,668,301 purchases using the FSA...