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Some posts and articles worth readingMT @Write4Research Non-elite journals got 27% of all academic citations in 1995, now 47%." http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2217.pdf "I declare the Bayesian vs. Frequentist debate over for data scientists" http://simplystatistics.org/?p=3340  on @simplystats's blog"What are the Most Policed Countries: Police per 100,000 People" http://maps.ramiro.org/police-countries/ …"Throughout history, people have gotten the depiction of running totally wrong" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/nobody-knows-what-running-looks-like/381171/ …"How Rebounds Work" http://grantland.com/features/how-rebounds-work/ …"Earth Just Experienced the Warmest Six-Month Stretch Ever Recorded" http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/13/nasa_earth_just_experienced_the_warmest_six_month_stretch_ever.html …"Data can help provide better answers, assuming we're asking it the right questions" http://www.itnews.com.au/Feature/396728,big-data-needs-big-brains.aspx#ixzz3G87GBNJZ …"How Much You Need To Work To Cover Tuition in 1978 vs. 2014" http://www.attn.com/stories/197/how-much-you-need-work-cover-tuition-1978-vs-2014 …"The World of Dictatorships According to the USA" http://alphadesigner.com/blog/page/9/ "Europe According to Luxembourg" http://alphadesigner.com/blog/page/3/ The World According to Ancient Greeks http://alphadesigner.com/blog/ "The shifting center of pro athlete production" http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/culturebox/2014/10/baseball_player_map_a_new_u_s_map_based_on_where_baseball_players_were_born.html?wpsrc=fol_tw … ht http://www.vox.com/2014/10/14/6951261/sports-maps-charts …"Twitter mentions of "hockey"" http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap/  ht http://www.vox.com/2014/10/14/6951261/sports-maps-charts …"NFL players have gotten enormous" http://noahveltman.com/nflplayers/  ht http://www.vox.com/2014/10/14/6951261/sports-maps-charts …"Data-driven geography" http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/285/art%253A10.1007%252Fs10708-014-9602-6.pdf?auth66=1413269426_1b8a09fd1e4219885f383cab27936d9c&#38;ext=.pdf … ht @visionscarto"Basketball's 13 true positions" http://www.sloansportsconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Alagappan-Muthu-EOSMarch2012PPT.pdf … ht http://www.vox.com/2014/10/14/6951261/sports-maps-charts …"If all of a city's traffic lights could speak to one another, commute times would decrease by 22%" http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033184/these-traffic-lights-predict-your-behavior-to-give-you-a-speedier-commute …you can name her whatever you like but make sure it's something you can remember http://bizarrocomics.com/  cc @coulmont"Women won't receive equal pay until 2075 and it's hurting the economy" http://www.cityam.com/1405427494/women-wont-receive-equal-pay-until-2075-and-its-hurting-economy-report-says …"Ebola by the numbers: The size, spread and cost of an outbreak" http://www.nature.com/news/ebola-by-the-numbers-the-size-spread-and-cost-of-an-outbreak-1.16144?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews …"Genomic analyses provide insights into the history of tomato breeding" http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3117.html … via http://blogs.nature.com/freeassociation/2014/10/how-we-built-a-better-tomato.html … ht @IgorCarron"We plotted 812,000 energy usage curves on top of each other." http://blog.opower.com/2014/10/load-curve-archetypes/ … nice weekday load archetypes"Statistical Inference: The Big Picture" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.2895v2.pdf …"It Pays to Compare" http://blog.whatsthefare.com/2014/10/it-pays-to-compare.html … "Ride-sharing by the Numbers""Why States Should Aim For 100 Percent Vaccination" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-states-should-aim-for-100-percent-vaccination/ …"Statistics Lessons: Why Blaming Health Care Workers Who Get Ebola Is Wrong" http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnvillasenor/2014/10/12/statistics-lessons-why-blaming-health-care-workers-who-get-ebola-is-wrong/ … by @johndvillasenor"Sex workers deploy a psychological pricing strategy in order to maximise their revenues" http://blog.import.io/post/gender-differences-amongst-sex-workers-online…"Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity" http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140916/ncomms5800/full/ncomms5800.html …"Is it dangerous or beneficial to drink coffee?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-014-9956-6?no-access=true … via http://www.improbable.com/2014/10/12/coffee-healthful-or-harmful-an-emphatic-maybe/ …"Why airport screening won't stop Ebola" http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/10/economist-explains-9?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/why_airport_screening_won_t_stop_ebola … ht @aussietorres"Ebola facts and answers to common questions" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-qa.html?smid=tw-nytimes …"An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of P values" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.5296v2  by @david_colquhoun"What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security/ … ht @cblatts and @JeffWeinerOS"Distribution of light (blue and green) eyes in Europe, by anthropologist Peter Frost" (ht http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color )"The Genetics Epidemic" http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142180/jamie-f-metzl/the-genetics-epidemic …"A designer is creating "smell maps" of cities" http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/designer-creating-smell-maps-cities-377 …"Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car" http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car … GPS and credit"Asset seizures fuel police spending" http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/10/11/cash-seizures-fuel-police-spending/?hpid=z6 …"Nobel Prize 2014: Jean Tirole" http://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/nobel-prize-2014-jean-tirole/ …"Jean Tirole’s Nobel Prize Is Also a Win for Modern Microeconomic Theory" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/upshot/jean-tiroles-nobel-prize-is-also-a-win-for-modern-microeconomic-theory.html?abt=0002&#38;abg=0 … by @JustinWolfers"The Gaza war aftermath, comparing 2009 to 2014" http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2j4d5q/the_gaza_war_aftermath_comparing_2009_to_2014/ …"Hong Kong legislator says government using triads against protesters" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/hong-kong-legislator-accuses-government-triads-against-protesters?CMP=twt_gu …"Improving the Balance Between Financial and Economic Risk Taking" http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfsr/2014/02/pdf/c1.pdf … (a lot of great graphs)"Live longer — and thank economics" http://www.ft.com/hIoGdDn_LltCVbMJD3AF4A&#38;… by @JohnKayFT ht @adelaigueStriking Collages Replace Guns from Vintage Photos with Life-Size Flowers http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/mister-blick-photo-collages …et un peu de lecture en français"Les journalistes, leur anglais et l’économie" http://acrithene.net/2014/10/13/les-journalistes-leur-anglais-et-leconomie/ … ht @adelaigue"Grammaire: des élèves de 6e année (de primaire) plus performants que ceux de 1re secondaire" http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/education/201410/13/01-4808832-grammaire-des-eleves-de-6e-annee-plus-performants-que-ceux-de-1re-secondaire.php …"Wikipedia : quand la fin du web libre se donne en spectacle" http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/10/14/wikipedia-quand-la-fin-du-web-libre-se-donne-en-spectacle/ … par @crouzet"660 directeurs de laboratoires s’adressent à François Hollande" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/pascal-maillard/141014/660-directeurs-de-laboratoires-s-adressent-francois-hollande … en soutenant le mouvement «Sciences en marche»"Quand les universités éclairent l'actualité" http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/enquetes/quand-les-universites-eclairent-l-actualite.html … dossier de @marieannenourry"Google te connait mieux que ta mère !" http://www.influencia.net/fr/actualites/in,data-trends,revue-influencia-fier-etre-numero,4756.html …"Jean Tirole, un Nobel bien ancré dans le réel" http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/10/14/jean-tirole-un-nobel-bien-ancre-dans-le-reel_4505921_3234.html … (#paywall) ou encore "Jean Tirole, un économiste de la complexité des marchés" http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2014/10/13/jean-tirole-un-economiste-de-la-complexite-des-marches_1121105 … par Etienne Wasmer"Piketty, Tirole, une «French touch» en économie ?" http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2014/10/13/piketty-tirole-une-french-touch-en-economie_1120932 … par @latrive et @pygeoffard"Tirole n’a pas que des amis" http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?p=12241 … par @econoclastecool http://www.sncf.com/fr/geolocalisation … géolocalisation des trains SNCF en temps réel, voir aussi OSM Tchoutchou http://www.raildar.fr/#lat=46.815&#38;lng=6.899&#38;zoom=6 … via @franckpaul"Londres : l'homme qui voulait faire payer les banquiers" http://www.lepoint.fr/economie/londres-l-homme-qui-voulait-faire-payer-les-banquiers-13-10-2014-1871985_28.php …"Refonder l’assurance-maladie" http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note012.pdf …RT @q_ruy "L'économie est-elle une science ?" http://philosophiedessciences.blogspot.fr/2014/10/leconomie-est-elle-une-science.html …"A Hongkong, les jeunes « dénoncent une forme d’impuissance publique »" http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2014/10/13/a-hongkong-les-jeunes-denoncent-une-forme-d-impuissance-publique_4505000_3216.html … avec @cecile_vdvDid I miss something?