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(via @thereaIbanksy ). Some writings worth reading, found here and there,"Piketty’s Theory of Inequality and its Critics: A White Paper" http://ms.techprogress.org/ms-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Piketty-explainer-WP.pdf … by @Econ_Marshall ht @tylercowen"Government should make greater use of university academics as specialist consultants" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/09/23/government-should-make-greater-use-of-academics/ …"Assessing International Spreading Risk Associated with the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak" http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/estimating-the-reproduction-number-of-zaire-ebolavirus-ebov-during-the-2014-outbreak-in-west-africa/ … "Fewer companies are hiring ‘data scientists,’ but data science is still hot" http://gigaom.com/2014/09/02/fewer-companies-are-hiring-data-scientists-but-data-science-is-still-hot/ …"Out in the Open: This Man Wants to Turn Data Into Free Food (And So Much More)" http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dat/ "Investigating Political Participation and Social Information Using Big Data and a Natural Experiment" http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3562 hockey is Canada’s religion? http://www.macleans.ca/culture/mapped-do-canadians-tweet-more-about-hockey-or-church/ … "Church tweets vs. hockey tweets""French grandes écoles need ‘a change of mindset’" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0d9b5672-df74-11e3-8842-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3C6AjnriD … by @moniquevalcour"An algorithm to figure out your gender" (from your tweets) http://boingboing.net/2014/09/01/twitter-uses-an-algorithm-to-f.html …"A doctor chronicled the progression of Alzheimer's disease in one of his patients by collecting her signatures" via http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2ennv0/a_doctor_chronicled_the_progression_of_alzheimers/ …"Tornado strength, frequency, linked to climate change" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806154011.htm … (the paper is http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-014-2277-3#page-1 …)"The Mathematics of Herding Sheep" http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mathematics-of-herding-sheep … from http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/100/20140719 … see"Facebook Data Scientists: Who Are They and What Do They Do?" http://guardianlv.com/2014/08/facebook-data-scientists-who-are-they-and-what-do-they-do/ …"When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception?" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105937 …"Life outside the lab: The ones who got away" http://www.nature.com/news/life-outside-the-lab-the-ones-who-got-away-1.15802"As unions decline, inequality rises" http://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-rises/ …"At Work, Every Friday Should Be a Summer Friday" http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/work-every-friday-should-be-a-summer-friday.html … by @melissadahl (and Monday, too)"Big Data Should Be Regulated by ‘Technological Due Process’" http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/08/06/is-big-data-spreading-inequality/big-data-should-be-regulated-by-technological-due-process … with Danielle Keats CitronSouth African Airways international route map, in 1976, during the apartheid https://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/5385673699/ …"Sharing is not a crime" http://www.karisma.org.co/compartirnoesdelito/?cat=7 … see also http://news.sciencemag.org/latin-america/2014/07/colombian-grad-student-faces-jail-sharing-thesis-online … (facing jail for sharing a thesis online)"Bayesian vs frequentist: squabbling among the ignorant" http://madhadron.com/posts/2014-08-30-frequentist_and_bayesian_statistics.html …"Income inequality hour by hour" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/08/27/a-look-at-income-inequality-hour-by-hour/ …"Why America’s Workers Need Faster Wage Growth—And What We Can Do About It" http://www.epi.org/publication/why-americas-workers-need-faster-wage-growth/ …MT @WolfgangPetzold "Life expectancy: EU vs US regions" http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/reports/cohesion6/index_en.cfm …"Does industry sponsorship restrict the disclosure of academic research?" http://blog.oup.com/2014/08/industry-sponsorship-academic-research/ …"Why big data has some big problems when it comes to public policy" http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/why-big-data-has-some-big-problems-when-it-comes-to-public-policy/2014/08/28/7ffff52c-2e6d-11e4-be9e-60cc44c01e7f_story.html … ht @janzilinsky"Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola" http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola …"Economics Isn't Science or Literature" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-27/the-economics-food-fight … by @noahpinion"Does Economics Education Teach Students to Trust?" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/2014/08/does-economics-education-teach-students.html …"Obesity rates in America throughout the years" (1985-2010, via http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html …)"The recent financial crisis has taught us to pay attention to dark corners, where the economy can malfunction badly" http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2014/09/blanchard.htm …"I dressed as a goth, a party girl, and a manic pixie dream girl; here's how my friends, partner and okcupid reacted" http://www.bustle.com/articles/36369-i-dressed-as-a-goth-a-party-girl-and-a-manic-pixie-dream-girl-heres …A lot of researchers explore the dynamics of the richest 1%, but only have the fuzziest understanding of the poorest http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-bottom-1-percent/379400/ …"Why big data has some big problems when it comes to public policy" http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/why-big-data-has-some-big-problems-when-it-comes-to-public-policy/2014/08/28/7ffff52c-2e6d-11e4-be9e-60cc44c01e7f_story.html … ht @janzilinsky"Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects" http://www.technologyreview.com/view/530401/evidence-grows-that-online-social-networks-have-insidious-negative-effects/ …Ship transport (nice map by @visionscarto)et un peu de lecture en français,"Démocratiser l’informatique lorsqu’elle se fait loi" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/416203/des-idees-en-revues-democratiser-l-informatique-lorsqu-elle-se-fait-loi … par @PierrotPeladeau"L’autophotographie érotique, genre explosif de la photographie numérique" http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/3025  par @gunthert"Les droits de scolarité élevés réduisent bel et bien l’accès aux études universitaires" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/417378/droits-de-scolarite-une-etude-donne-raison-aux-carres-rouges …"Quatre thèses sur la surveillance numérique de masse et la négociation de la vie privée" http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/55/03/PDF/Contribution_M.CASILLI.pdf … par @AntonioCasilli"L'innovation destructrice" http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/09/01/l-innovation-destructrice_4479669_3234.html …"Pourquoi assurances et objets connectés font mauvais ménage" http://jeromeroussin.com/2014/09/01/tendances/pourquoi-assurances-et-objets-connectes-font-mauvais-menage … par @JeromeRoussin"Pourquoi votre banquier veut vous avoir comme ami sur Facebook" http://www.petitweb.fr/actualites/pourquoi-votre-banquier-veut-vous-avoir-comme-ami-sur-facebook/ … ou votre assureur http://www.petitweb.fr/actualites/nicolas-moreau-pdg-daxa-france-tous-nos-agents-auront-leur-propre-page-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux/ …"Le silence c'est bon pour la santé : pour assurer le stress de la rentrée, un conseil, taisez-vous" http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2014/08/23/sante-silence-assurer-stress-rentree-conseil_n_5699271.html …"Dans le monde arabe, les femmes sont le sexe fort des universités" http://www.slate.fr/monde/86749/monde-arabe-femmes-sexe-fort-universites …"la différence entre un blogueur et un journaliste" http://www.culture-numerique.fr/?p=1345  par @michelguillou"Ségolène, Marine et les autres…" http://coulmont.com/blog/2013/11/20/segolene-marine-et-les-autres/ … par @coulmont, pour mieux comprendre , Najat vs. MoscoviciDid I miss something?