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Some posts and articles worth reading"No Equality without Data" http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/no-equality-without-data … via @visionscartoHuge student debts are tied to elite schools but what about kids who attend state schools? Their debt has shot up too http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/30/the-student-loan-crisis-that-isn-t-about-kids-at-harvard.html …"parents strongly cautioned" because of "advanced math", via @stevesilberman @romenesko @BJMendelson"Your Odds Of Surviving Cancer Depend Very Much On Where You Live" http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/12/01/366852222/your-odds-of-surviving-cancer-depend-very-much-on-where-you-live … from http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962038-9/abstract …New data-visualisations http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/12/new-data-visualisations?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fdc%2F&#38;%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc … "It's becoming clear that the native form for data is alive, not dead""Too big to be efficient? The impact of implicit funding subsidies on scale economies in banking" https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/upload/ccf58f26-955d-4d0e-89ef-76ef7e86939c_daviestracey.pdf … via @anatadmati"Breakout detection in the wild" https://blog.twitter.com/2014/breakout-detection-in-the-wild … (with R) see "Leveraging Cloud Data to Mitigate User Experience from "Breaking Bad"" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.7955v1.pdf … for the research paper"Why More Solar Panels Should Be Facing West, Not South" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/why-more-solar-panels-should-be-pointing-west-not-south.html … (yes, it's an economic reason, not physics...)"The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It" http://bankersnewclothes.com/excerpts/  (by @anatadmati) #nowonmywishlist"Why Economists Are Paid So Much" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-02/why-economists-are-paid-so-much … by @Noahpinion"So banks are too big to fail. Are they also too big to regulate?" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/28/banks-too-big-to-fail-regulate-financial-sector-accountability … ht @anatadmati"Working the Land and the Data" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/working-the-land-and-the-data.html?_r=0 …"Getting Older: Expectations vs. Reality" http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-everything-you-think-about-aging-may-be-wrong-1417408057 …"How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works" http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7311417/race-law-controls … by @ezraklein"World Maps Without NZ" http://worldmapswithout.nz/  ht @ThomasSpeidel "It’s not a very important country most of the time""Pirates Moved From Somalia To Guinea" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-17 …"Is Your Organization Ready for the Impending Flood of Data?" http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/is-your-organization-ready-for-the-impending-flood-of-data/ … ht @DiegoKuonen[free ebook] "A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping" http://spatial-analyst.net/book/system/files/Hengl_2009_GEOSTATe2c1w.pdf … see also http://spatial-analyst.net/book/  for additional ressources"the tangled history of facial hair and capitalism suggests that deeper forces are at work" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/why-ceos-are-growing-beards.html?referrer&#38;_r=0 … ht @laurenfosternyc"Losing languages" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/losing-languages/2014/11/29/9708aeca-781f-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_graphic.html …"The Superiority of Economists" http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2071743/component/escidoc:2071741/mpifg_mpdp14_3.pdf …[free ebook] "Poverty and Equity. Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD" http://www.ecn.ulaval.ca/~jyves/publications/pedag.pdf …"The Science Of Politely Ending A Conversation" http://www.fastcodesign.com/3038950/evidence/the-science-of-politely-ending-a-conversation … see 1973's paper http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03637757309375796#.VG90glfF-d4 …"The Location of Academic Knowledge " http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=the-location-of-academic-knowledge …Social media data pose pitfalls for studying behaviour http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/social-media-data-pose-pitfalls-studying-behaviour-240450 … "Researchers urged to hone methods for mining social-media data""What Last Meals Can Tell Us About Guilt and Innocence" http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/op/finaltest  (one of the worst dataviz ever)et un peu de lecture en français,"Politiquement et scientifiquement, on se demande pourquoi les salariés consentent à de tels efforts" http://www.lesinrocks.com/2013/08/11/actualite/employes-dans-la-grande-distribution-pourquoi-ne-se-revoltent-ils-pas-11411404/ … via @monolecte"La traque méthodique de l’internaute révolutionne la publicité" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/11/BENILDE/49783 …"Vous n’aimez pas les économistes ? Vous n’êtes pas les seuls ! " http://actu-sciences-eco.blogs.liberation.fr/2014/12/02/vous-naimez-pas-les-economistes-vous-netes-pas-les-seuls/  (un dernier pour la route) "C’est prouvé scientifiquement: les économistes ont la grosse tête!" http://www.alterecoplus.fr/economie/cest-prouve-scientifiquement-les-economistes-ont-la-grosse-tete-201412021925-00000334.html … ht @JeanneauL"Les smartphones à l’origine d’un boom des accidents domestiques" http://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2014/12/02/les-smartphones-a-l-origine-d-un-boom-des-accidents-domestiques_4532675_4497916.html … assurance et objets connectés (aléa moral ? si les assureurs demandent à leurs assurés pour avoir accès à des données, mais qu'en contrepartie, ils augmentent le risque...)"Les dernières colonies" http://visionscarto.net/les-dernieres-colonies … retour sur les 16 "territoires non autonomes" par @visionscartovia @lesinrocks "Pourquoi la ville de Montréal domine le monde de la musique indé ?" http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/11/27/musique/la-scene-montrealaise-a-evolue-depuis-lexplosion-darcade-fire-11537284/ … ht @pareto35"D’après Jean Tirole, « il faut revenir à des établissements pluridisciplinaires de petites taille »" http://rachelgliese.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/jean-tirole-small-is-beautiful/ … par @gaiauniversitas"Trajectoire des enseignants-chercheurs selon les groupes disciplinaires" …http://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/statistiques/31/4/orig2013_343314.PDF … p24 ht @nholzschuchDid I miss something interesting?