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Some posts and articles worth reading, found somewhere else"The Trouble With the Genetically Modified Future" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-16/the-trouble-with-the-genetically-modified-future … ht @Mark_Buchanan"The number of refugees fleeing Syria has dropped dramatically — but that’s not good news. In fact, it’s terrible" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/11/13/trapped_in_syria_refugees_lebanon_jordan …"On Benford's Law: Determining import fraud risk using customs data" http://www.jumbodumbothoughts.com/2014/11/benfords-law-customs-imports.html …"The Invention of the Jewish Nose" http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/nov/14/invention-jewish-nose/ …"Karl Stefanovic's sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year" http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html … (via http://www.arretsurimages.net/breves/2014-11-18/Sexisme-la-preuve-par-le-costume-id18217 …)"Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions" http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/ …"Global Fishing Watch" https://youtu.be/fn2JXmCUo30  (amazing maps and animations)"This is every active satellite orbiting earth" http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth/ … (for more spacedata in http://cas.uqam.ca/ )"What Does Heavy Metal Say About Canadian Identity?" http://www.popmatters.com/tools/full/187993/ …"Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing" http://www.microbiomejournal.com/content/2/1/41  (scientific proof that kissing is gross http://www.cnet.com/news/science-definitively-proves-that-kissing-is-gross/ …"Years of life lost, due to obesity" (via http://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7230641/maps-charts-obesity-weightloss … - a lot of other interesting graphs there)"Companies are collecting mountains of information about you, crunching it to predict how likely…" http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1994-09-04/database-marketing … Businessweek 1994data science (as at 1942) http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2279212?uid=3738016&#38;uid=2129&#38;uid=2134&#38;uid=2&#38;uid=70&#38;uid=4&#38;sid=21105233201993 … ht @DiegoKuonen"Super Flemish" http://sachabada.com/portfolio/index.php/ … by Sacha Goldberger via http://www.ufunk.net/photos/super-flemish/ …"Statistics on big data: Take it easy, but do take it" http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/2014/11/03/statistics-on-big-data-take-it-easy-but-do-take-it/ … by @AndrewPease123 ht @DiegoKuonendaily risk of dying http://ripe-tomato.org/2014/04/24/birth-risks/ … ht @jimgthornton"The Big Problem With Kim Kardashian's Butt Photos Nobody Is Talking About" http://mic.com/articles/104188/the-big-problem-with-kim-kardashian-s-photos-nobody-is-talking-about …"A doctor’s mistaken Ebola test: ‘We were celebrating. . . . Then..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-doctors-mistaken-ebola-test-we-were-celebrating--then-everything-fell-apart/2014… tests and errors see also @jimgthornton's ”Type 1 and type 2 errors made easy” via @aLittleMedic (mentioned a few months ago, http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/14347)"Anonymous Reveals KKK Members’ Identities" http://www.inquisitr.com/1612812/ferguson-anonymous-reveals-kkk-members-identities/ … see also http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-seizes-klu-klux-klan-twitter-account-over-ferguson-threats-7000035836 …, via @moorehnabout the "free market" system http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-16/25-americans-prefer-socialism-over-capitalism …"we become inured to the struggles of the working class" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/opinion/inequality-unbelievably-gets-worse.html?_r=0 … e.g Doing Less to Redistribute Income"Missing maps and Ebola" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-8 … (about the amazing work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT))"Big Data is visualized in so many ways...all of them blue and with numbers and lens flare" http://bigdatapix.tumblr.com/ "Mapping the 2014 Ebola outbreak" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/interactive-ebola-map …"Estimated Population Growth in Europe, 2014" (via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2mha0d/estimated_population_growth_in_europe_2014/ … data https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2002.html …)"Comparative index of electricity prices in North America" http://www.hydroquebec.com/affaires/tarifs-et-facture/tarification/prix-de-lelectricite-ici-et-ailleurs/ … (base 100 is Montreal)Rosetta, via http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/13/les-10-ans-de-la-mission-rosetta-resumes-en-1-gif …"The career prospects of overeducated Americans" http://www.voxeu.org/article/career-prospects-overeducated-americans …"When the Gini Index Is Redundant" http://www.lettingthedataspeak.com/when-gini-is-redundant/ …"The ignorance epidemic" http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21632641-virus-claiming-new-victimsafrican-tourism-and-football-ignorance?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_ignorance_epidemic … "The virus is claiming new victims—African tourism and football""The 10 Highest-Paying Jobs For Math Geeks" http://www.businessinsider.com/highest-paying-jobs-for-math-geeks-2014-11 … ht @kirkdborneet un peu de lecture en français,"Ni assurance ni charité, la solidarité" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/11/SUPIOT/50963 … via @mdiplo"Karl Stefanovic a porté le même costume à l'antenne pendant un an sans que personne ne le remarque" http://www.arretsurimages.net/breves/2014-11-18/Sexisme-la-preuve-par-le-costume-id18217 …"Base d’adresse: la Poste + OpenStreetMap" http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/14/base-dadresse-union-de-raison-entre-lign-et-openstreetmap/ … via @liotier , et @sg_map (http://www.nextinpact.com/news/90933-l-etat-s-associe-a-societe-civile-pour-elaborer-base-d-adresses-collaborative.htm …)"Des assurances calculées selon notre conduite" (#paywall) http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2014/11/03/des-assurances-calculees-selon-notre-conduite_4517322_1651302.html … ht @cchassain"Encourager des regroupements Universités/Business Schools" http://blog.educpros.fr/jacques-igalens/2014/11/15/encourager-des-regroupements-universitesbusiness-schools/ …"Shane et Maggie : portrait d’une violence domestique" http://www.saranaomiphoto.com/Shane-and-Maggie/23/ … par Sara Naomi LewkowiczDid I miss something interesting?