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Some posts and articles worth reading, here and thereomg, I should teach this! http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wasting-time-on-the-internet-is-now-an-actual-college-class … "'Wasting Time on the Internet' Is Now an Actual College Class""The Societal Cost of Computer Science" http://contraposition.org/blog/2014/10/29/the-societal-cost-of-computer-science/ …"The Science of Science Blogging Literature" http://www.scilogs.com/from_the_lab_bench/the-science-of-science-blogging-literature/ … by @FromTheLabBench"How to Make More Published Research True" http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001747&#38;representation=PDF … via @ivanoransky"Interest in the R statistics language is soaring, especially for data analysis" http://www.infoworld.com/article/2612058/ruby/beginner-s-guide-to-r--introduction.html …"How sick are the world’s healthcare systems?" http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/29/how-sick-are-worlds-healthcare-systems-nhs-china-india-us-germany …"Selecting universities: personal preference and rankings" by @lpachter http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1026  ht @tomroud"Shit My Reviewers Say" http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.com/  ("Collecting the finest real specimens of reviewer comments since 1456")"Ebola: Failures of Imagination" http://www.psandman.com/col/Ebola-3.htm"Dynamic population mapping using mobile phone data" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/23/1408439111.full.pdf+html …"Is a car crash ever an accident?" http://m.startribune.com/local/east/280999802.html?section=/local … by @stribnorfleet ht @MatthewSteelevia @VizualStatistix: The seasonality of births and deaths in the USA. http://bit.ly/1tDgvli  ht @neuroecology"Fast Traders Are Getting Data From SEC Seconds Early" http://online.wsj.com/articles/fast-traders-are-getting-data-from-sec-seconds-early-1414539997 …"Breaking Down Big Data: The Value in Metadata" http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/breaking-down-big-data-the-value-in-metadata-026985.php?utm_source=twitter&#38;utm_medium=dlvr.it-cmswire&#38;utm_campaign=socialmedia … by @jhorodyski"When Women Stopped Coding" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding …"Enhancing Subtitles" http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2014/10/tvx2014-short-paper-enhancing-subtitles … by @brooksoid and @MikeA_MCR"Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human" http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/why-the-chess-computer-deep-blue-played-like-a-human …"The Coldest Time Of Year Has Not Always Been The Most Lethal" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/10/daily-chart-15 …"Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration" http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/EdwardsEtAl2011ScienceFriction.pdf … ht @jrmdns"My Genes Did It!" http://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/my-genes-did-it-247951.html … (see also http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128043329 …)"City slicker" http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21629533-data-are-slowly-changing-way-cities-operate-city-slicker … "Data are slowly changing the way cities operate"interesting to see those statistical papers in the Top100Citation database http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.21247!/file/WebofSciencetop100.xlsx … (via http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224 …)"Understanding our rule in the world of Big Data" http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/terms-of-service/#1 … ht @Maev59 (a graphical novel)"A closer look at the economics of Ebola" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-closer-look-at-the-economics-of-ebola/?utm_medium=referral&#38;utm_source=t.co …"Slow Cab Coming" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/slow-cab-coming …"Defining A City By Its Professional Skill Set with Data From LinkedIn" http://blog.linkedin.com/2014/10/22/defining-a-city-by-its-professional-skill-set-with-data-from-linkedin/ … ht @egschmitt"Bad Data Can Make Us Smarter" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-29/bad-data-can-make-us-smarter … very interesting post by @Noahpinion"Thinking like a statistician" http://simplystatistics.org/2014/10/20/thinking-like-a-statistician-dont-judge-a-society-by-its-internet-comments/ … "don't judge a society by its internet comments" ht @DrMoDecisions"At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law" http://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-new-universal-law/ …"Americans are bad at all kinds of math, especially when it involves probability" http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-ebola-poltics-20141029-column.html …"Climate change: Lessons for our future from the distant past" http://www.voxeu.org/article/climate-change-lessons-our-future-distant-past … by David F. Hendry"Everything you think you know about the news is probably wrong" http://qz.com/288707/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-news-is-probably-wrong/ …see also " you are probably wrong about almost everything" http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/29/todays-key-fact-you-are-probably-wrong-about-almost-everything … ht @obouba (on unknown real statistics)"Alternating antibiotic treatments constrain evolutionary paths to multidrug resistance" http://www.pnas.org/content/111/40/14494.abstract …"The Complicated History of Color Definitions" http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/10/27/color_definitions_their_history_and_why_it_s_so_hard_to_define_cerise_taupe.html … (still don't get the diff. bordeaux-bourgogne)"Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence" http://www.csf.pv.it/files/biomedica/materiali/essential_readings/2009%20lancet%20avoidable%20waste.pdf …"Axis of Additives" http://graphics.wsj.com/food-additives-ingredients/"Circumpolar coastal human population distribution" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circumpolar_coastal_human_population_distribution_ca._2009.png …"Whisper and the Meaning of Anonymity" http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/28/whisper-and-the-meaning-of-anonymity/ … by @lizzadwoskin"Confessions of a white Oxbridge male" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/82ce89ec-5967-11e4-9546-00144feab7de.html#axzz3HTWMLu00 …in London, http://vis.oobrien.com/tube/#tongues  "Tube Tongues" by @oobr"Soak the Rich" http://www.thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/soak-the-rich … an exchange on capital, debt, and the future, by David Graeber and Thomas Piketty"European Stress Tests: not stressful enough" http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/european_stress_tests_not_stressful_enough … by @Frances_Coppola"This Guy’s Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball Forever" http://www.wired.com/2014/10/faster-higher-stronger/ …et un peu de lecture en français"Halloween : les zombies-walk sont-elles utiles pour faire face aux épidémies ?" http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/20141031.OBS3825/les-zombies-walk-sont-elles-utiles-pour-faire-face-aux-epidemies.html?xtor=RSS-24 …"Je n’irai pas au Louvre, j’ai déjà vu une photo de La Joconde" http://romainelubrique.org/photographie-musee-domaine-public-isabelle-attard …"Le numérique promet une nouvelle jeunesse à notre bonne vieille démocratie" http://www.liberation.fr/evenements-libe/2014/10/24/benoit-thieulin-le-referendum-c-est-le-degre-zero-de-la-democratie_1128788 …"La science avance: recruter un doctorant étranger (hors UE)" http://laviedemix.over-blog.com/2014/10/la-science-avance-recruter-un-doctorant-etranger-hors-ue.html … par @mixlamalice"Les expatriés français" http://www.passiondataviz.fr/post/77364872410/expatries-francais-etranger-carte-2012 …"Comment le web redéfinit la notion de vie privée" http://www.inaglobal.fr/numerique/article/comment-le-web-redefinit-la-notion-de-vie-privee-7864 … by @AntonioCasilli"Les riches et vous" http://neocarto.hypotheses.org/848  par @nico_lambert"L'école de la détestation" http://www.cervo-coaching.com/AdminCervo/docs/actualites/Ecole%20de%20la%20detestation.pdf … par @coulmont ht @LalaKahinaGraphiques avec ggplot2, une introduction http://editerna.free.fr/Enseignement/R/Slides/graphiques.html#1 … par @3wen"Quand l’acteur achève le politique" http://fressoz.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/10/28/quand-lacteur-acheve-le-politique/ … ht @IThisSaintJeanvia @LeMonde_correct En grammaire française, le pluriel commence à 2 tout rond. On écrira donc "1,99 euro", faisant ainsi l'économie du "s".Did I miss something interesting?