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Was 2014 the worst year, ever?I guess we need to wait a bit longer, just to be sure....Some posts and articles worth reading,"Outlier Detection Gets a Makeover - Surprise Discovery in Scientific Big Data" http://stats.cwslive.wiley.com/details/feature/6597751/Outlier-Detection-Gets-a-Makeover---Surprise-Discovery-in-Scientific-Big-Data.html …"If it costs more, does it taste better?" and other questions about restaurants that permit unlimited consumption http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/the-economists-who-studied-all-you-can-eat-buffets/384033/ …what americans have been tweeting about, in 2014 http://echeloninsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/theyearinnews20141.png …"What’s The Most Common Street Name In America?" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/whats-the-most-common-street-name-in-america/ … by @MonaChalabiOn Mooc delusion in the U.S. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/09/spocs_small_private_online_classes_may_be_better_than_moocs.html … via @Gjpvernantinteresting! @TimHarford speaking about the perils of #bigdata to @RoyalStatSoc see http://www.statslife.org.uk/science-technology/1748-tim-harford-and-the-perils-of-big-data …"Access to higher education and the value of a university degree" http://www.voxeu.org/article/access-higher-education-and-value-university-degree …"@Kilicbil, Photographer of the year 2014" http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/dec/29/photographer-of-the-year-2014-bulent-kilic-in-pictures …"The limits of knowledge in economics: Part IV" http://real-estate-and-urban.blogspot.fr/2014/12/the-limits-of-knowledge-in-economics_26.html …World Crops http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?crops … via @IdeasFishermanProductivity: "I wrote N lines of code today". Much greater productivity: "I eliminated N lines of code today" http://www.infoq.com/presentations/programming-design-coding …"9 Ugly Lessons About Sex From Big Data" http://time.com/3302251/9-ugly-truths-big-data-ok-cupid-book/ … by @jacklinshivia @lincolnmullen Package for interactive, exploratory maps in R using @Elijah_Meeks's d3-carto-map https://github.com/lmullen/cartographer …"Can AIDS Be Cured?" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/can-aids-cured …"Programming doesn't belong to men (it belongs to me)" http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/12/28/programming-doesnt-belong-to-men-it-belongs-to-me/ …"The Price Of A Barbie Doll Roughly Reflects Her Career Choice" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/04/daily-chart …"This Is When Most Traffic Accidents Happen In California" http://zzzev.github.io/traffic/ et un peu de lecture en français"La philosophie à l’épreuve de la viande" http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2014/12/24/la-philosophie-a-l-epreuve-de-la-viande_4545910_3224.html#714XAgxZQkdHlqWJ.99 … "un défi majeur à la cohérence éthique des sociétés humaines""Patrick Modiano, cartographie et vaporisation" http://spacefiction.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/patrick-modiano-cartographie-et-vaporisation-mapping-and-vaporization/#fran%C3%A7ais … (via @visionscarto)"65 % des Français ne partent jamais en vacances l’hiver" http://www.credoc.fr/pdf/Sou/vacances_%20hiver_2010.pdf … via http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?article1384 …la France, en train, http://philippe.gambette.free.fr/Train/  Les geeks à l'écran, http://www.lecinemaestpolitique.fr/geeks-a-lecran-i-les-codes-stereotypes-de-linformatique/ … (1/3) et http://www.lecinemaestpolitique.fr/geeks-a-lecran-ii-du-geek-adolescent-maladroit-au-brogrammer/ … (2/3), à suivre donc"Pour pirater une empreinte digitale, cette photo suffit" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/12/28/pirater-empreinte-digitale-cette-photo-suffit-256786 …Did I miss something interesting?