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Some posts and articles, worth reading,"Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing…" https://web.cs.dal.ca/~sbrooks/csci4166-6406/seminars/readings/Cleveland_GraphicalPerception_Science85.pdf … see also http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/cpsc533c-04-spr/readings/cleveland.pdf … or https://vis.arc.vt.edu/~npolys/projects/safas/science.pdf …"The Sharing Economy Comes To Hospitals To Help Cut Costs" http://www.fastcoexist.com/3038465/the-sharing-economy-comes-to-hospitals-to-help-cut-costs …"Ageism in Academe" http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/11/18/ageism-in-academe/ …"Arms and the African" http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21633901-continents-armies-are-going-spending-spree-arms-and-african … "The continent’s armies are going on a spending spree""Why the data doesn’t work: anti-immigrant sentiment and the economic impacts of migration" https://christinaboswell.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/why-the-data-doesnt-work-anti-immigrant-sentiment-and-the-economic-impacts-of-migration/ …"World's Biggest Data Breaches" http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ …"Not pleased with your yield-less investments? Invest in doom!" http://qz.com/96103/not-pleased-with-your-yield-less-investments-invest-in-doom/ …"Extreme mortality bond testing investor view on pandemic risk" http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/mortality-bond-ebola-idUSL2N0SC1E820141020 …"How Women's Bra Sizes Weirdly Correlate To Their Spending Habits" http://www.popsci.com/big-data-breasts-and-buying-power-china … on correlations and big data discoveriesperformance of cat bonds http://www.britishchambershanghai.org/sites/default/files/catastrophe_bond_-_the_birth_of_a_new_asset_class_june_2012.pdf …"Thinking outside the Bank" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21633858-powerful-central-banks-are-subject-their-own-biases-and-failings-thinking …"The 100 Year Marriage Trend in the UK" http://www.theweddingsecret.co.uk/data-centre/uk-weddings-2014/ …"Human intelligence is withering as computers do more, but there’s a solution" http://online.wsj.com/articles/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342 … see also http://finance.yahoo.com/news/computers-are-making-us-dumb--nicholas-carr-140449209.html …"Why Tony Robbins Is Asking The Wrong Questions" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-22/why-tony-robbins-asking-wrong-questions …“Myth 1″ starts with quoting Warren Buffett and sums the premise in this paragraph. “So instead of buying all the stocks individually, or trying to pick the next high-flying hotshot fund manager, you can diversify and own a piece of all 500 top stocks simply by investing in a low-cost index fund that tracks or mimics the index.”The true myth is that what is actually in the index as a business, its economic makeup, its validity as a true business, or anything else that we once understood as what a business “is.” Is – no longer and doesn’t mean squat.The only “is” that now matters is this : Is – the index one that has a bulls-eye that the Central Banks deem important? i.e., they will buy it directly or fund its purchase via their proxies. Period."Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives" http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives … ht @PhilippeLoizon"Data Science: What's The Half-Life Of A Buzzword?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/08/19/data-science-whats-the-half-life-of-a-buzzword… ht @WaltikaP["Michael Smith"] = P["Michael"] x P["Smith"] (quite a strong assumption) http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-the-most-common-name-in-america/ … by @MonaChalabiso here it thet Hartman’s matrix of the joint distribution"Blacks are far more likely to be arrested than people of other races, and in some places, dramatically so" http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/18/ferguson-black-arrest-rates/19043207/ …"Co-operation" http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/11/20/co-operation-2/ …"Tweets linking to Academic Journals" http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2011/10/mapping-academic-tweets/ … (in July 2011)"Gradient boosting machines, a tutorial" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3885826/pdf/fnbot-07-00021.pdf …"For the Public Good: The Shameful History of Forced Sterilization in the U.S." http://blog.longreads.com/2014/11/19/for-the-public-good/ …"Body parts, food, and appliances seen with a thermal imaging camera" http://youtu.be/48bwQVa0AQcTimeline, Israel-Palestine, Over The Last 5 Months http://www.businessinsider.com/a-disturbing-timeline-of-israel-palestine-violence-over-the-last-5-months-2014-11 …Big Protest in Mexico (for the Missing Students) https://news.vice.com/article/in-photos-heres-what-the-big-protest-for-the-missing-students-in-mexico-city-looked-like… ht @raulpacheco"How History Shaped the Global Mathematician" http://www.livescience.com/42161-global-mathematics-history-nsf-bts.html … ht @bucharesttutor"The Karl Marx Credit Card – When You’re Short of Kapital" http://climateerinvest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/the-karl-marx-credit-card-when-youre.html …car insurance premiums and rates of car theft http://www.shiftins.com/content/data.aspx …timharford.com/2014/11/finance-and-the-jelly-bean-problem/ … "What else might influence portfolio returns? There is literally no limit to the number of variables" by @TimHarfordProblems most academics wish they had http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1763 …"Why the St. Louis Fed Focuses on Academic Research" http://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/why-the-st-louis-fed-focuses-on-academic-research/ … see also http://longandvariable.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/how-to-run-a-research-department-i-mean-hub-thingummy-whatever/ …"Map: It's really cold in the US — and unusually warm almost everywhere else" http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/21/7260177/cold-us-global-warming …"When Brazilian women (or doctors) choose to give birth?" http://imgur.com/mqC4Zdr "Iraq, the broken country" https://medium.com/@davidemancino1/the-country-that-was-315caa5af7dc …"Constructed Criteria" https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/uhlmann_et_2005.pdf … "Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination"+1 http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf … scientific paper worth reading via @josephstromberg "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List"The Executive Summary of the Bible http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/2mpv2r/the_stories_of_the_bible_in_tldr_form/ …avec un peu de lecture en français"Apprenons-nous le hasard en observant le monde ?" http://www.scilogs.fr/raisonetpsychologie/apprenons-nous-le-hasard-en-observant-le-monde/ … ht @percheun"Mon université tombe en ruines !" http://www.heloiseduche.fr/?p=385  par @heloiseduche à rapprocher des billets http://coulmont.com/blog/2010/02/13/my-working-conditions/ … de @coulmont"pour une autre politique de la recherche" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/alternatives/article/231114/sciences-en-marche-pour-une-autre-politique-de-la-recherche … (il serait temps!)"pourquoi le remède à l'hépatite C peut coûter 705 euros en Inde et 41 000 euros en France" http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2014/11/20/sovaldi-prix-cout-france-hepatite-c_n_6190642.html …exercice de 6ème du dimanche (pour les amateurs, nombreux chez mes lecteurs)"Les chercheurs vont-ils sortir l'économie française de l'ornière plutôt que rejoindre les effectifs de Pôle emploi" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0203904061612-le-doctorat-peine-a-trouver-sa-place-dans-les-entreprises…"La méritocratie, ça se mérite !" http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2014/11/20/la-meritocratie-ca-se-merite_4526789_1473685.html … #paywall"Les « nouveaux censeurs » du Net : et si on appelait ça la démocratie ?" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/11/22/les-nouveaux-censeurs-net-si-appelait-ca-democratie-256172 … par @xporte"Le merveilleux monde des Cuys" http://vimeo.com/112061208  fabuleuse publicité pour aider la lutte contre le cancer des testiculeDid I miss something interesting?