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Some posts and articles worth reading"Wish number two: 'No person under the age of 35 will be allowed to work on Wall Street' " http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-15/michael-lewis-eight-things-i-wish-for-wall-street …via @lauramclay People &#38; doctors do not understand Bayes Rule, make sad &#38; misinformed choices http://features.necir.org/prenatal-testing … &#38; http://jezebel.com/faulty-prenatal-screening-tests-may-lead-people-to-choo-1671190616 …"Can one explain schemes to biologists" http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html … (back on Alexander Grothendieck's work)"An Evaluation of Course Evaluations" http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/evaluations14.pdf … see also http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775714000417 … discovered via http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/26/345515451/student-course-evaluations-get-an-f …How computational science, operational research and statistics evolved into datascience (ht @DiegoKuonen and @ekimetrics)"Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17229840in France, when you greet a friend, how many times do you kiss? http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?frenchkisses … ht @MaxCRoserIf All Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge: The Effect of Others’ Actions on Engagement in... http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2014-54048-001 …"The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality" http://qz.com/312537/the-secret-to-the-uber-economy-is-wealth-inequality/ …"Physical Appearance and Earnings, Hair Color Matters" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537114001432/pdfft?md5=a8613d4ecc27d854e5674b00d9199ddc&#38;pid=1-s2.0-S0927537114001432-main.pdf … womenvs men"How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases" http://www.wired.com/2014/12/facebook-knows-ads-influence-offline-purchases …"How Many Students Are Using Free Lunch Programs?" (via http://dadaviz.com/ ) by @Jishai"Minitel Terminal as a Twitter Client" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2096074 …"National Claims to the Arctic Shelf" http://sputniknews.com/europe/20141215/1015874369.html …"The economics of oil have changed. Some businesses will go bust, but the market will be healthier" http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21635472-economics-oil-have-changed-some-businesses-will-go-bust-market-will-be …Population density, Canada http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-550/vignettes/img/map-2006-pop-density-canada-sz01-en.gif …"Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/02/02/0813202106.abstract … (see also http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00452.x/abstract …)"America should be more like Disneyland" http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/12/disneyland-infrastructureeconomyinvestmentoptimism.html … by @DavidCayJSensory Maps http://sensorymaps.com/ Trends in Global Poverty Measures 1980-2030, via https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/20384/9781464803611.pdf …"The truth is that torture did work, but not the way its defenders claim...." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-husseini/what-both-sides-are-ignor_b_6315678.html …"The Correlation Between Police Presence and Black Populations in US Cities" http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/105282552911/the-recent-series-of-high-profile-killings-of …"20 maps "that never happened" http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7377541/maps-that-never-happened … such as "War Plan Red: The invasion of Canada""Digital History Methods in R" http://dh-r.lincolnmullen.com/  by @lincolnmullen"Character Mentions in the Lord of the Rings" http://lotrproject.com/blog/2014/12/13/character-mentions-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/ …"Researchers 'Averaged' The Faces Of 400 CEOs — The Results Say A Lot About Race In Business" http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-average-face-of-400-ceos-2014-12?r=US …"Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts" http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-art-is-watching-you-1418338759?mod=e2tw …via @randal_olson Can you guess someone's age when all you know is her name? In many cases, yes http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/ …"Across America, whites are biased and they don’t even know it" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/08/across-america-whites-are-biased-and-they-dont-even-know-it/ …"A Map of Every Device in the World That's Connected to the Internet" http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-every-device-in-the-world-thats-connected-to-t-1628171291 …"Most Americans’ best days are behind them" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/peak-income/ …"Military Spending: Percentage of GDP" by @SilkDotCo via https://biggest-armies.silk.co/ et un peu de lecture en français"Cet homme est-il un casseur?" https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url=https://addeb611a3700984960bc2831e75c261687d6a7a.googledrive.com/host/0B13y430xxHZLQUE4bk11a0F0ajQ/published.json …"Les inégalités de genre sous l’oeil des démographes" http://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/22685/population.societes.2014.517.inegalites.genre.fr.pdf …tellement vrai http://www.slate.fr/story/95735/cdg-aeroport … "Bienvenue en France!" par @martelf"Au-delà de Xynthia, trente ans de catastrophes naturelles en cartes" http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/visuel/2014/12/12/au-dela-de-xynthia-trente-ans-de-catastrophes-naturelles-en-cartes_4539499_4355770.html …"Euro Millions: les numéros sont-ils égaux?" http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Datamatch-Euro-Millions-les-numeros-sont-ils-egaux-544922 … ht @Data_Match (ou http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/205 )"Faut-il arrêter de chercher à sauver le monde" http://www.internetactu.net/2014/12/15/faut-il-arreter-de-chercher-a-sauver-le-monde … (ça tombe à pic, je pensais faire une pause pendant les vacances)