Q: New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to "The New Yorker", it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister.

In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the cityat least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then "Washington Post" media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine has increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance.

Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Magazine Awards than any other publication, including the 2013 award for Magazine of the Year. It was one of the first dual-audience "lifestyle magazines", and its format and style have been emulated by some other American regional city publications.

In 2009, its paid and verified circulation was 408,622, with 95.8% of that coming from subscriptions. Its websitesNYmag.com, Vulture.com, The Cut, and Grub Streetreceive visits from more than 14 million users per month.

Answer the following questions:
1. What magazine is this about?
2. Is that the same as the New Yorker?
3. What topics does New York cover?
4. How does it differ from the New Yorker?
5. Are the two magazines in competition?
6. When was it founded?
7. By whom?
8. Who are some of the writers it has featured?
9. Who else?
10. Does it have a website?
11. How many?
12. How many visits do they get a month?
13. Who is the editor-in-chief?
14. Has it ever been redesigned?
15. When?
16. Do other magazines try to copy it?
17. Has it received awards?
18. Like what?
19. When was that?
20. Does it post national stories or just local?
A: 1. New York
2. no
3. magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style
4. brasher and less polite
5. yes
6. 1968
7. Milton Glaser and Clay Felke
8. Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin
9. Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister.
10. yes
11. Four
12. more than 14 million
13. Adam Moss
14. yes
15. 2004
16. yes
17. yes
18. Magazine of the Year.
19. 2013
20. national
Q: Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data and is described as the branch of economics that aims to give empirical content to economic relations. More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference". An introductory economics textbook describes econometrics as allowing economists "to sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships". The first known use of the term "econometrics" (in cognate form) was by Polish economist Pawe Ciompa in 1910. Jan Tinbergen is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Ragnar Frisch is credited with coining the term in the sense in which it is used today.

The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. Econometric theory uses statistical theory and mathematical statistics to evaluate and develop econometric methods. Econometricians try to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties including unbiasedness, efficiency, and consistency. "Applied econometrics" uses theoretical econometrics and real-world data for assessing economic theories, developing econometric models, analyzing economic history, and forecasting.

The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. In modern econometrics, other statistical tools are frequently used, but linear regression is still the most frequently used starting point for an analysis. Estimating a linear regression on two variables can be visualized as fitting a line through data points representing paired values of the independent and dependent variables.

Answer the following questions:
1. what method is being discussed?
2. what is it?
3. what does it try to do?
4. what else is it considered to be?
5. based on what?
6. what does it allow economists to do?
7. when was the word first used?
8. by who?
9. who is he?
10. who made up the term that we now use?
11. who else played an important role in coming up with it?
12. to what extent?
13. what is the most important tool for econometrics?
14. what does this theory use?
15. to accomplish what?
16. which is the most used tool?
17. how is this done?
18. how is it visualized?
19. of what?
20. what is the main goal of an econometrician?
A: 1. Econometrics
2. the application of statistical methods to economic data
3. give empirical content to economic relations
4. the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena
5. the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference
6. sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships
7. 1910
8. Pawe Ciompa
9. a Polish economist
10. Ragnar Frisch
11. Jan Tinbergen
12. considered by many to be one of the founding fathers
13. the multiple linear regression model
14. statistical theory and mathematical statistics
15. to evaluate and develop econometric methods
16. linear regression
17. unknown
18. as fitting a line through data points representing paired values
19. the independent and dependent variables
20. to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties
Q: Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 200211, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans. On October 10, 2014, the website's URL was redirected to Amazon's IMDB.com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation.

Brandon Gray began the site in 1999. In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary, the Internet Movie Database.

From 200211, Box Office Mojo had forums, which were a popular place for box office "fanatics", and the site at one time was home to several popular movie games and quizzes, tests (e.g., "Fantasy Box Office" (created in 2006) and "Create a Year of Movies"), until these were summarily canceled for undisclosed reasons. Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2, 2011 the forums were officially closed along with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message boards, even though not all the same features were available there. Tracking is still done very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors, making it possible to see the general trend of a film's "earnings trajectory".

Answer the following questions:
1. When was Box Office Mojo founded?
2. what do they do?
3. Who founded it?
4. Does he still own the company?
5. who does?
6. who are they owned by?
7. When was the website aquired?
8. Does the site have a lot of readers?
9. how many?
10. who helped build the site up?
11. along with?
12. What was the site a popular place for?
13. When were the forums closed?
A:
1. 1999
2. tracks box office revenue
3. Brandon Gray
4. No
5. Internet Movie Database
6. Amazon.com
7. July 2008
8. Yes
9. 16,500
10. Sean Saulsbury
11. Gray
12. "fanatics"
13. November 2, 2011