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Some posts and articles worth readingnice http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v13n2/vonhippel.html … "Mean, Median, and Skew: Correcting a Textbook Rule" ht @enraje"The remarkable rise of big data economics" http://qz.com/297790/the-remarkable-rise-of-big-data-economics/ … (maybe not "big", but "available", at least) ht @JonathanAFrye"The Secret Life of Passwords" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html … ht @msgbiRT @nytimeswell "The problem with treating the health care system like an all-you-can-eat buffet" http://nyti.ms/1F8f6aespace stats http://boingboing.net/2014/11/14/relative-scale-of-the-solar-sy.html … "Relative Scale of the Solar System Planets, in Fruits""Economics Is a Dismal Science for Women" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-21/economics-is-a-dismal-science-for-women … by @noahpinion"Give Me The Data! Why So Many Data Ideas Fail" http://www.forbes.com/sites/lutzfinger/2014/11/21/give-me-data-why-data-ideas-fail/ … ht @mjcavaretta"Behind the Writing on the Stalls" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/behind-the-writing-on-the-stalls/383016/?single_page=true …"Twitter "Exhaust" Reveals Patterns of Unemployment" http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3140  via http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532746/twitter-exhaust-reveals-patterns-of-unemployment/ … ht @moorejh"What is morally acceptable? It depends where you live." http://tableaupicasso.com/what-is-morally-acceptable-it-depends-where-you-live/ …by @Khagnine "just protestant things" (ht @ALarigaudrieBFM)"Defining Big Data In Two Words: Who Cares?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/teradata/2014/11/19/defining-big-data-in-two-words-who-cares/ …"A Mexico, une « mega protesta » dans la rue et sur Twitter" http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/21/a-mexico-une-mega-manifestation-dans-la-rue-et-sur-twitter-le-20-novembre/ … (poke @mtabastos)"Words of the Umbrella Movement" http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/november/words-umbrella-movement …"Physics of Beer Tapping" http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.214501 … ht @MarcAbrahams"The Effect of Ordering Decisions by Choice-Set Size on Consumer Search" http://www.reinholtzresearch.com/Levav_Reinholtz_&#38;_Lin_2012.pdf … ht @davdittrich"Age of Housing in the United States" via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2mvgh2/age_of_housing_in_the_united_states_5250x4500/ … see also http://www.trulia.com/trends/vis/homes-by-decade/ …"Making the Numbers? “Short Termism” &#38; The Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster " http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/11-033.pdf …"This is what “power = .06” looks like. Get used to it" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/11/17/power-06-looks-like-get-used/ …"Replication controversies" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/11/19/24265/ …"On the Rise of Bayesian Econometrics after Cowles Foundation Monographs 10, 14" http://papers.tinbergen.nl/14085.pdf  ht @deagiles, see also Cowles Foundation Monographs 10 http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cm/m10/m10-all.pdf … and 14 http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cm/m14/m14-all.pdf …"Cityscapes Made with Scalpels by Damien Hirst" http://www.damienhirst.com/news/2014/scalpel-cityscapes …"The Programmer’s Price" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price … "Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.""Growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/20/theres-growing-evidence-that-global-warming-is-driving-crazy-winters/ … see http://marine.rutgers.edu/~francis/pres/Francis_Vavrus_2012GL051000_pub.pdf …"Ransoms: The Real Cost" http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/nov/19/ransoms-real-cost/ …"Historical Tsunami Distribution" http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/103126555156/these-kernel-density-maps-show-the-source-events … (even if I wounder how kernel density can be legitimated here)"America’s favorite really bad movies" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/18/americas-favorite-really-bad-movies/ …"Moving cameras talk to each other to identify, track pedestrians" http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/11/12/moving-cameras-talk-to-each-other-to-identify-track-pedestrians/ …that's indeed a good question http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/why-isnt-academic-research-free-to-everyone/382917/?single_page=true … "Why Isn't Academic Research Free to Everyone?""Reporting of Generalized Linear Mixed Models in Clinical Medicine: A Systematic Review" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0112653 … ht @CasalsTMarti"The Global Obesity Epidemic Is Costing The World Economy $2 Trillion A Year" http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Economic_Studies/How_the_world_could_better_fight_obesity …"Fragility of Nash equilibria and Neo-Fisherites" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2014/11/fragility-of-nash-equilibria-and-neo-fisherites.html …"Studies in Test Adequacy" http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED214944.pdf … by Rand Wilcox, in 1981"Claims Run-Off Uncertainty: The Full Picture" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2524352 … (to get a better understanding of one-year uncertainty in IBNRMS Word (via @9gag)"Imitation Game will finally bring Alan Turing the fame he so rightly deserves" https://theconversation.com/imitation-game-will-finally-bring-alan-turing-the-fame-he-so-rightly-deserves-34324 …"Cache is the new RAM" http://blog.memsql.com/cache-is-the-new-ram/ …"What's the coldest day of the year?" http://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/whats-coldest-day-year … (in the U.S. only, unfortunately)"Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13977.html … via "Does Knowing You Are a Banker Make You More Dishonest?" http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/11/19/does-knowing-you-are-a-banker-make-you-more-dishonest/ … ht @aussietorres @erikholmwsj (spoiler: yes)on the 8 Skills You Need to Be a DataScientist &#38; work with BigData http://blog.udacity.com/2014/11/data-science-job-skills.html … ht @JonathanAFrye"Dear snow-trolls: Winter weather does not refute global warming" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/19/dear-snow-trolls-winter-weather-does-not-refute-global-warming/ …"Most Common Languages In The US" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/18/the-languages-we-speak-at-home-mapped-by-county/ …"The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis/382235/ …"Don't Expect A Large Salary Increase If You Didn't Go To College" https://my.infocaptor.com/dash/i.php?viz=mmymmzzm …"A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge " https://files.nyu.edu/ap70/public/levyss.htm … by Steven Levy"Who Gambles The Most?" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/daily-chart-0 …"Elementary schools start teaching data literacy" http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-it/elementary-schools-start-teaching-data-literacy/2014/11/14/9e8bb4ec-6aac-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html … glad to hear that some teacher are actually data literate"Homeward Bound" http://prospect.org/article/homeward-bound-0 …"No 'Misteak' High Beef Prices A Boon For Drought-Weary Ranchers" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/19/363518869/no-misteak-high … only chicken price goes down"Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women" https://hbr.org/2014/12/rethink-what-you-know-about-high-achieving-women …"Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/13/1407301111.full.pdf+html …"This Apple Store in London Looks Just Like a Regular Apple Store Except It Sells Real Apples" http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/apple-store-london-looks-just-regular-apple-store-except-it-sells-real-apples-161468 …via @GIStrobl Interesting conclusion @CIOonline: "If you’re drowning in big data, GIS might just be your lifeguard" http://www.cio.com/article/2847694/big-data/gis-data-maps-business-netapp-ciobp.html …et un peu de lecture en français"Pourquoi il est urgent de mieux expliquer l'économie" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0203943540295-pourquoi-il-est-urgent-de-mieux-expliquer-leconomie-1065341.php … par @jmvittori"Le jour où on a inventé le copié-collé, il aurait fallu inventer une Haute autorité du Plagiat" http://an-2000.blogs.liberation.fr/2014/11/18/plagiat/ … par @vincentglad"Cent Titres – Quand une artiste détourne les classiques de la littérature" http://www.ufunk.net/artistes/clementine-melois-cent-titres/ …après les multiples "coups de canif", les universités victimes du "coup de rabot" budgétaire http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2014/11/20/les-universites-victimes-du-coup-de-rabot-budgetaire_4526975_1473685.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#38;utm_medium=twitter#xtor=RSS-3208 … par @isareylef et le "coup de sabre" dans le budget des universités, http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/11/le-budget-des-universit%C3%A9-sabr%C3%A9-%C3%A0-lassembl%C3%A9e.html … c'est l'article de @HuetSylvestre"Pétrole : le calme avant la tempête, d’après l’Agence internationale de l’énergie" http://petrole.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/19/petrole-le-calme-avant-la-tempete-dapres-lagence-internationale-de-lenergie/ …"Fausse bonne idée" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0203947125841-fausse-bonne-idee-1065744.php …via @cecile_vdv "au Royaume-Uni, nouveau mouvement étudiant sur le prix des études et les coupes budgétaires" http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/video/2014/11/20/londres-les-etudiants-manifestent-contre-les-frais-d-inscription_4526255_3214.html …'En direct de la twittosphère' http://www.alterecoplus.fr/content/les-liens-de-la-semaine-portrait-social-de-la-france-islamophobie-sida-sondages-police … par @xmolenat, sélection des liens socio et sciences sociales de la semaine, #nice"Nègres, Noirs... Du bon usage des mots en cartographie" http://visionscarto.net/negres-noirs-du-bon-usage-des-mots … par @visionscarto"Pour l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche, une autre politique est possible… et nécessaire !" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/11/apr%C3%A8s-philae-quelle-politique-pour-la-recherche-.html … ht @HuetSylvestre"Les chercheurs apportent bien plus à la société qu’une plus-value économique Ils jouent un rôle social très important" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/424214/chercheurs-vous-devez-agir …"De la Commune de Paris au monde qui vient" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/communiques/141118.html … avec la jolie carte de Paris, en 1871Did I miss something interesting?