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Some writings worth reading, found here and there,summer writing process http://phdcomics.com/1731 …"Another tragic cluster - but how surprised should we be?" http://understandinguncertainty.org/… ht @IstvanHajnal (or "The odds of a cluster of airplane accidents" http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/16093 )"Understanding Passenger Patterns in Public Transit Through Smart Card and Socioeconomic Data" http://comeetie.fr/pdfrepos/ … by @comeetiein the U.S. "Share of Adults with Debt in Collections" http://urban.org/413191…"The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect" http://wired.com/2014/…"Where culture goes to die" https://economist.com/blogs/babbage…"The World Map of Small Towns" http://vladstudio.com/wallpaper… by Vlad GerasimovKids really do avoid food that’s good for them http://jstor.org/10.1086/677224 … but only if you tell them it's good for them ht http://arstechnica.com/…via @jeremyphoward Kaggle Competition Past Solutions http://chioka.in/kaggle… What a fantastic resource!via @lawhackers Algorithm predicts US Supreme Court decisions 70% of time http://arstechnica.com/science/…"14 Reasons You’re Tired All the Time" http://time.com/28288…"Employer Cost of €1 net in Europe" http://institutmolinari.org/… (via http://datarep.tumblr.com/93519654194…)"If minimum wages, why not maximum wages?" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fr/2014/ … ht @econoclaste"Dimension Reduction Regression in R" /http://.jstatsoft.org/v07/a01 "California’s Exceptional Drought Just Keeps Getting Worse" http://bloomberg.com/news/…“If basic statistics are a problem for you, I’d advise becoming a journalist so at least you can get paid for it” http://thedailymash.co.uk/news/…via @kastnerkyle New post on Gaussian processes http://kastnerkyle.github.io/blog/…RT @WSJGraphics What sectors contributed the most and least to America's growth in GDP? http://online.wsj.com/..."Google searches hold key to future market crashes" http://pnas.org/1324054111 … via http://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/… by @ChesterCurme and @t_preisThe most commonly-spoken languages in London (other than English), via http://fr.scribd.com/235460970/…"The Art and Science of Data-driven Journalism" http://towcenter.org/… ht @kdnuggets"Our first 3 years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age 7. What are we hiding from ourselves?" http://aeon.co/magazine/…"Does OKCupid need our consent?" http://theguardian.com/science/… "We need a better quality debate about the algorithms that rule our online lives"via @JoakimMoller1 Sovereign defaults since 1800 - The Economist http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/… ht @Tournyol"When Computer Users Were Programmers" http://wired.com/2014/…"Africa Needs Science, Not Aid" http://nytimes.com/2014/… ht @sciencesharenew"Researchers in the cloud" http://cell.com/trends/…Mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremeshttp://wmo.int/pages…"Collective Punishment in Gaza" http://newyorker.com/news/… see also (in 2004) "Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child" http://theguardian.com/world/…How WWI changed the world http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/…"Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/home/…"A World of Projection Distortions" http://azavea.com/blogs/atlas/…"How the art world is reacting to big data" http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/…Money Talks http://newyorker.com/magazine/… "Learning the language of finance""Becoming a Data Scientist" http://nirvacana.com/thoughts/… ht @lisachwinteret un peu de lecture en français"Justice : inquiètes, les banques ont mis plus de 150 milliards d'euros de côté" http://lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/… par @decodeurs"Local, équitable, artisanal, durable" http://lafeuillecharbinoise.com/10987  quel consommateur ? ht @monolectepasser 5 minutes à contempler une dataviz' avant de capituler, en n'ayant rien compris http://askmedia.fr/blog/… dommage"Des pratiques éducationnelles exemplaires en matière d’accompagnement individualisé auprès d’élèves du secondaire" http://mels.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/… via @dpernoux"Les hussardes (Enseigner au préscolaire)" http://voir.ca/normand-baillargeon/… par @nb58"Evolution du prix et de la vente de cigarette en France depuis 2000" http://actualitix.com/evolution…streetart rennais http://jesuisunephemere.blogspot.fr/ Did I miss something interesting?