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Some writings worth reading, found somewhere, on the internet"How can we cut down on research that doesn't replicate?" http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/…"When the deepest theory we have seems to undermine science itself, some kind of collapse looks inevitable" http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/ …"Map the iPhone Users, And You Know Where the Rich Live" http://theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/… iPhones (red) vs. Androids (green), in Washington D.C."Converting plots to data" http://wiekvoet.blogspot.ca/2014/ … and http://wiekvoet.blogspot.ca/2014/…interest idea, I like that! http://wired.co.uk/news/archive/ … "BeWifi lets you steal your neighbour's bandwidth when they're not using it"the least we can do is to admit that data scientists at Facebook have a great sense of humour https://prod.facebook.com/notes/…"Map of second languages spoken in London" http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/10/29/… by @resi_analyst, see[free ebook] "History of Cartography" http://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/… (vol 1) till http://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/… and http://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/… (vol 3)"Elections are flawed and can't be redeemed – it’s time to start choosing our representatives by lottery" http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/ …"Three strikes and a blog: What to do with papers that are continually rejected" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/… (see also http://scx.sagepub.com/…)"Job Growth, by Decade, in the United States" https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/298/  see"War: The Gambling Man’s Game" http://hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/…"Study shows that fatter men last longer in bed. Should Americans rejoice?" http://salon.com/2010/09/… the study is http://nature.com/ijir/… via http://vouloirtoujourstoutsavoir.blogspot.ca/2014/01… ht @goulu"Minority Report really did predict the future" http://io9.com/5920302/…"Bifurcation between “Hadoop group” (orange) and “SQL/Excel” (blue)"http://techrepublic.com/…. HT @augustinlandier"The Relationship between Bank Capital, Risk-Taking, and Capital Regulation: A Review of the Literature" http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/…"An idiot learns Bayesian analysis" http://pirategrunt.com/2014/01/25/an-idiot… (not so idiot, clearly...)"More than technology, businesses need the scientific method" http://technologyreview.com/news…"Google autocomplete results: "Why is [state] so..." by @Amazing_Maps, ht @augustinlandier"Sharing and Caring" https://jacobinmag.com/2014/01/…"Economic mobility hasn’t changed in a half-century in America, economists declare" http://washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ … see"Fear And Loathing Of The English Passive" http://lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive …"New Old Keynesianism" http://crookedtimber.org/2014/01/22/ … via http://angrybearblog.com/2014/01/…"We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/… see"On R-squared and economic prediction" http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/01/…"William Shockley on what makes a person who publishes a lot of papers (and the superstar researcher system)" http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/…"The Decline of the American Book Lover" http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/… HT @cblatts"Congress passes spending bill requiring free access to publicly funded research" http://creativecommons.org/weblog/…"Cold" http://xkcd.com/1321/  seeet un peu de lecture en français[Appel à contribution] http://presquepartout.hypotheses.org/594  journée d'étude passionnante en perspective !"IP Tracking : suite et histoire sans fin des pratiques de variations des prix sur Internet" http://blog.economie-numerique.net/2014/…Apprendre à faire des crêpes à un informaticien... http://sweetrandomscience.blogspot.nl/2014/01/…"Nombre de mariages consanguins pour 100 mariages catholiques, en France, entre 1926 et 1945" via @KLeM"Trop puissante pour être punie ?" http://atlantico.fr/decryptage/trop… "L'inquiétante difficulté des démocraties à contrôler l'industrie de la finance""Mise en données du monde, le déluge numérique" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/07/…"Pêcher le client dans une baignoire" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/…"Horizons de la Statistique" http://horizons.sfds.asso.fr/?page_id=649  cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?…Did I miss something interesting?