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Some posts and articles worth reading"This study of hype in press releases will change journalism" https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/study-hype-press-releases-will-change-journalism?tgt=nr … (back on http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7015 …)via @Noahpinion "Debates about methodology in physics are starting to echo the ones in economics" http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-defend-the-integrity-of-physics-1.16535 …"Know your Branches of Economics" via @obouba and @regis_bigotvia @lauramclay "Modernized Space Camp Allows Kids To Simulate Frustration Over Lack Of Funding" http://onion.com/1365tuJ amazing that adding only two white lines transforms a gif in a 3d animated picture (see e.g. http://www.viralnova.com/3d-images/ )"An Economist Goes Christmas Shopping" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/upshot/an-economist-goes-christmas-shopping.html?_r=0&#38;abt=0002&#38;abg=0 … by @jbarro[photography] Pavel Maria Smejkal, “Fatescapes” http://www.pavelmaria.com/fatescapes01.html …[photography] "Gert Verbelen rekende het exacte middelpunt uit van deze landen, op basis van wiskundige coördinaten" http://www.newdawnpaper.nl/bredaphoto-presenteert-gert-verbelen …"The Army Is Building An Algorithm To Prevent Suicide" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-army-is-building-an-algorithm-to-prevent-suicide/ … by @andrewflowers via @dtchimp's https://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/is-algorithmic-judgment-creepy-or-wonderful/ …"How big data can change the music industry" http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/18/how-big-data-can-change-the-music-industry/ …"Angel or Bitch? How We Sing About Women" http://anthonygarvan.com/2014/12/19/angel-or-bitch-how-we-sing-about-women/ … by @anthonygarvan"Magic in the Machine: a Computational Magician's Assistant" http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01283/full … via http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/artificial-intelligence-making-magic-tricks-magical/ …nice, R has a crepuscule() function, via @noahbullock    help(topic = "sunriset", package = "maptools")                            awesome"When Talking About Bias Backfires, @adammgrant and @sherylsandberg on Discrimination at Work" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/adam-grant-and-sheryl-sandberg-on-discrimination-at-work.html?_r=2 …via @MaxCRoser "How Professors use their Time" (Data source: http://bit.ly/1An4LEl ) (DataViz: http://bit.ly/1An4LEk )"What use is it to read all these books if I remember so little from them?" http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html  by @paulg"How We Sleep in Mainland China" https://jawbone.com/blog/sleep-china/ …"Consider this: Did Big Data Kill The Statistician?" http://goodstrat.com/2014/12/03/consider-this-did-big-data-kill-the-statistician/ … ht @DEAGiles"GlobalView: Climate Change in Perspective" http://www.bloombergview.com/interactives/climate-change-in-perspective/ …"Average Annual Temperature vs Temperature Variation For US 10K+ Cities" (based on http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets …)"Dating is “Racist”" http://thedatapost.com/dating-is-racist/ …"Obesity by Occupation" (via http://www.wsj.com/articles/memo-to-staff-time-to-lose-a-few-pounds-1418775776 …)"The Greatest Tax Story Ever Told" http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-18/first-corporate-inversion-invented-by-liberal-tax-lawyer …"Fundamental plot arcs" http://sappingattention.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/fundamental-plot-arcs-seen-through.html … "multidimensional analysis of thousands of TV and movie scripts""Where’ve you been? Your smartphone’s Wi-Fi is telling everyone" http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/where-have-you-been-your-smartphones-wi-fi-is-telling-everyone/ …"Fertility and life expectancy" http://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/remixing-rosling …"The wave of bullshit data is rising, and now it’s our turn to figure out how not to get swept away" http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/a-wave-of-p-r-data/ … ht @xmolenatvia @NasriAtallah "The little-known fourth major monotheistic religion...""Human Cities: How we made it" http://blog.human.co/posts/human-cities.html … "From raw location data to mesmerizing visuals""A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/upshot/nordic-nations-show-that-big-safety-net-can-allow-for-leap-in-employment-rate-.html?_r=0&#38;abt=0002&#38;abg=0 …"What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-014-9313-4 … ht @renaud_epstein via http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/12/macnell-gender-2014 …RT @MaxCRoser "Fatalities from car accidents per billion kilometers" (Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/a-map-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-countries-for-drivers/283886/ …)"Analysing spatial point patterns in R" http://www.csiro.au/~/media/CSIROau/Divisions/CSIRO%20Mathematics%20Informatics%20%20Statistics/Rspatialcourse_CMIS_PDF%20Standard.pdf …"Breakups – The Visual Miscellaneum" http://www.leebyron.com/what/breakups/ "Do Basketball Referees Favor the Losing Team?" http://ostrowr.github.io/2014/12/11/fouls/ …"Want to influence the world? Map reveals the best languages to speak" http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2014/12/want-influence-world-map-reveals-best-languages-speak …"The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour" http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7094 … ht @DiegoKuonen"Childhood Poverty" (in the U.S.) by @uscensusbureau see http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/visualization/childhood/2014/?reload … ht http://dadaviz.com/ how fast does the flu kills kids http://dotdata.tumblr.com/  by @dotdataviz"htmlwidgets for R" http://www.htmlwidgets.org/index.html  Use JavaScript visualization libraries at the R console, just like plots"A financial joke devised to poke fun at Putin comes true" http://qz.com/312590/a-financial-joke-devised-to-poke-fun-at-putin-comes-true/ …et un peu de lecture en français,"Les revues de sciences humaines et sociales (1) : une économie fragile" http://www.acrimed.org/article4528.html …économie du partage, http://leconome.blogs.liberation.fr/leconome/2014/12/uberpop-airbnb-l%C3%A9conomie-collaborative-et-les-in%C3%A9galit%C3%A9s-au-xxi%C3%A8me-si%C3%A8cle.html … par @g_allegre et droit du partage http://droitdupartage.com/  par @droitdupartage, passionnant"Accusés de mépriser souvent le code de la route, les cyclistes sont surtout victimes des autres usagers de la route" http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/12/11/non-les-cyclistes-ne-sont-pas-des-fous-du-guidon_1160913 …"Faut-il pousser les jeunes chercheurs français à s'exiler ou à changer de métier ?" http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/pierre-larrouturou/recherche-francaise_b_6302734.html … ht @sciencesenmarch"Analyses Spatiales sous R" http://qcbs.ca/wiki/_media/gisonr.pdf …Did I miss something interesting?