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Some posts and articles worth reading,"Is Santa Claus a God?" http://nautil.us/blog/is-santa-claus-a-god … by @drjimdavies"What Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim can tell us about economics" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21636749-what-ebenezer-scrooge-and-tiny-tim-can-tell-us-about-economics-joy-world … ht @davdittrich“Our grandchildren”, reckoned J.M. Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why …"Blind Trials" http://xkcd.com/1462/ "A student's grandmother is more likely to die suddenly just before taking an exam, than at any other time of year" http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/DeadGrandmother.pdf … death probability of a college student's grandmother vs. grade of the student,"What Maps Can Hide" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/what-maps-can-hide/383672/ … ht @visionscarto"Is Homo Economicus A Psychopath?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/12/15/is-homo-economicus-a-psychopath/ … by @peterubel ht @liotierAlcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities by Hour of Week (http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS  via http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2qcctv/alcoholrelated_traffic_fatalities_by_hour_of_week/ …)"Behavioural economics meets development policy" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21635477-behavioural-economics-meets-development-policy-poor-behaviour … studies of American university students might not hold on the poor, see also "The problem with experimental economics: people are weird" https://ideas.repec.org/p/rsw/rswwps/rswwps139.html …"Who has the longest night’s sleep" http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Who-has-the-longest-night-s-sleep … by @Data_Match but biased: people using Withings products"Handling and Processing Strings in R" http://gastonsanchez.com/Handling_and_Processing_Strings_in_R.pdf …"Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive." http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/sugar-season-its-everywhere-and-addictive.html?_r=0 …via @rasbt "The Cost of Healthy Eating" https://plot.ly/~Jackson/7/the-cost-of-healthy-eating/ … via @plotlygraphs"Christmas in jail is worse than you can imagine. Now imagine if you've been wrongfully convicted" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/25/christmas-in-jail-wrongfully-convicted …by @ZachWeiner "A sociologist is a person who knows nothing. An economist is a person who knows nothing, and can prove it with math."viaT @NOAAClimate "How has the number of snow days during Christmas week changed?" http://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/snows-christmas-past …via  @inactinique "The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2014" http://flowingdata.com/2014/12/19/the-best-data-visualization-projects-of-2014-2/…"How macroeconomics has changed since the crisis " http://www.voxeu.org/vox-talks/how-macroeconomics-has-changed-crisis … a 11'33 interview of Wouter den Haanreverse psychology"Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.2716v1.pdf … negative correlation between the amount of reused text and influence"Data analysis example with ggplot and dplyr" http://www.sharpsightlabs.com/data-analysis-example-r-supercars-part2/ … (with cars)"Quantifying Search and Switching Costs in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2023446 …Countries with longer constitutions also tend to have lower levels of GDP per capita and higher corruption http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tsebelis/files/tsebelisnardi_bjps_final.docx …"Why lifespans are more variable among blacks than among whites in the United States" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-014-0345-2 …"Breast cance: highly educated women are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629614001386 …"Find Your Tree" (in NYC) http://tumblebolt.com/find_your_tree.html …"Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-schmitt/academic-journals-the-mos_1_b_6368204.html?ir=Education … by @Jason_Schmitt"The Dude Map: How Americans Refer To Their Bros" http://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros/ …"The problem with Big Data" http://www.scmagazine.com/the-problem-with-big-data/article/388691/ … ht @bobehayes @KirkDBorneon Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”, using music theory, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/03/daft_punk_s_get_lucky_explained_using_music_theory.html … (see also http://www.salon.com/2014/03/23/get_lucky_rick_moody_and_dean_wareham_debate_daft_punk_disco_and_whether_pleasures_should_be_guilty/ …) via @slateScary financial graphs http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/that-viral-chart-predicting-another-1929-stock-market-crash-its-absurd/283762/ … (think twice)"How to Grow &#38; Prune a Classification Tree" http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fc-2014-12 … ht @rasbtvia @fjnogales "How far apart can consecutive primes be? Tao and others about an old Erdős conjecture" http://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers/ …"Barycentre" 2013 by Swen Renault http://swen-renault.com/Centre.html  ht Philippe De Jonckheere"The International Monetary Fund and the Ebola outbreak" http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X%2814%2970377-8.pdf …"Against Excellence" http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/dec/19/against-excellence …"Most Americans Believe Jesus Was Born Of A Virgin" http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/18/celebrating-christmas-and-the-holidays-then-and-now/ …(reminds me of http://liturgy.co.nz/search-for-the-historical-mary …)"Measuring the effectiveness of scientific gatekeeping" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/17/1418218112 …"Every year the BMJ publishes an issue of joke science. But years later, those papers are cited as real" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-ethics-of-sarcastic-science/383988/ …"It’s pretty important to have a conscientious spouse" https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-one-thing-about-your-spouses-personality-that-affects-your-career/ … via https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-year-in-management-told-in-20-charts …"Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web" http://www.wired.com/2014/12/bots-now-outnumber-humans-web/ …"Here's What The Pros Are Predicting For Oil Prices" http://uk.businessinsider.com/brent-oil-price-forecasts-2015-2014-12 … via http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-oil-prices-likely-to-rebound-in-second-half-of-2015-reuters-poll-2014-12?r=US …et un peu de lecture en français"Les origines des clowns agressifs dans la culture populaire" http://dejavu.hypotheses.org/2010  par @ppeccatte"Pourquoi la société réagit si peu à la corruption des élites" (par Pierre Lascoumes) http://sans-langue-de-bois.eklablog.fr/pierre-lascoumes-pourquoi-la-societe-reagit-si-peu-a-la-corruption-des-a112904478 …"La ségrégation, comment ça marche" http://www.letemps.ch/interactive/2014/polygones/ … beau comme duvia  @LeMonde_correct “J'affectionne assez les tirets qui sont comme des parenthèses plus élégantes et moins traumatisantes pour le texte.” http://bit.ly/1Cut2d8tiens, @claudelelievre revient sur "Le Père Noël Supplicié", http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/claude-lelievre/221214/le-pere-noel-supplicie … ht @tomroud @JulesFerry12data science (par Le Chat)"et si les universités n'avaient pas le droit de sélectionner les Masters 2 ?" http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/franche-comte/2014/12/19/tribunal-administratif-et-si-les-universites-n-avaient-pas-le-droit-de-selectionner-les-masters-2-616756.html … (depuis le temps que je m'interroge)"Le trading haute fréquence en chiffres" http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/marches-financiers/0204032319527-europe-le-trading-haute-frequence-en-chiffres-1077157.php … par @NessimAitKacimi (mais attention aux chiffres http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2336 )Did I miss something interesting?