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Still a lot of intresting posts and articles, here and there,"People overestimate the benefits of prevention" http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...health-preventionl3e8mg022-20121115_1_cancer-screenings-bowel-cancer-breast-canc/evia @medskep"Public preferences over efficiency, equity and autonomy in vaccination policy" http://www.researchgate.net/… via [in French] http://www.dhnet.be/i…"Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition" http://www.nytimes.com/… via @msgbi"The Wondrous Mathematics of Winter and Snow"http://www. newyorker.com/...via @AlgebraFact"How Do We Know Nash Equilibrium Has “Arrived”?" http://cheaptalk.org/-do-we-know-nash-equilibrium-has-arrived/ …"Vice Fund +21.11 % in 2012, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund +13.27%" via http://www.lesechos.fr/cteurs/finance-marches/actu/0202470906127-bourse-le-vice-plus-remunerateur-que-la-vertu-en-2012-524095.php … forget about virtue, go for vice!"The Year in Review II: Yet More Fantastical Pseudo Economics"http://www. econbrowser.com/… via @Noahpinion @MarkThoma"Sexism in science (as elsewhere)"http://andrewgelman.com/-in-science-as-elsewhere/#.UOAL14f0yS4.twitter … via @Blogizmo with - as usual - interesting comments"Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?" http://reason.com/blog/… via @pegobry"The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest)"http:// theleisuresociety.tumblr.com/30/the-tech-debate-blasts-off-a-linkfest … "Towards a leisure society" via @rszbt @TeraEuro @izakaminska"Graphical Models and Inference" http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/ing/gm11/overview.htm … via @chlalanne @ramhiser"Media hype: Whose fault is it, journalists or scientists?"http:// ksj.mit.edu/... via @BoraZ @deborahblum"If data is available, should it always be published?" http://gigaom.com/spapers-and-guns-if-data-is-available-should-it-always-be-published …"European Commission Launches Open Data Portal In Public Beta"http:// thenextweb.com//european-commission-unwraps-public-beta-of-open-data-portal-ahead-of-january-2013-launch … via @msgbiPac-Man, Tetris, SimCity... video games at MoMA, http://www.wired.com11/moma-videogames/ … and http://www.guardian.co.uk/…"What is the social cost of gun ownership?"http:// home.uchicago.edu/s/JPubE_guns_2006FINAL.pdf … viahttp://marginalrevolution.com/tion/2012/12/what-is-the-social-cost-of-gun-ownership.html …"Six decades of economics publishing" (in QJE, AER and JPE) https://webspace.utexas.edu/ixDecadesofPublishing.pdf … via @cblatts's blog http://chrisblattman.com/-decades-of-economics-publishing/ …‘Christmas Sucks’ http://gawker.com/… spoiled kids on twitter, via @tomroud"No, Christmas Is Not an 'Economically Efficient' Holiday (And That's Okay)" http://www.theatlantic.com/ve/2012/12/no-christmas-is-not-an-economically-efficient-holiday-and-thats-okay/266519/ …"The behavioral economics of Christmas", by George Loewenstein and @CassSunstein http://www.tnr.com/… via @sylvainCF@justinwolfer"Catastrophic Risk Modeling and Recent Disasters" http://www.forbes.com/ewomen/2012/08/24/catastrophic-risk-modeling-and-recent-disasters-how-the-insurance-industry-rides-out-the-storms/?feed=rss_search … "How the Insurance Industry Rides Out the Storms""Do my tweets really matter?" http://www.newstatesman.com/ech/2012/11/do-my-tweets-really-matter …"the pathologies of modern life""Programming for all, part 1" http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/programming-for-all-part-1-an-introduction-to-writing-for-computers/ … "An introduction to writing for computers""Are Annuities Too Risky for Insurance Companies?"http://www.advisorone.com/2012/12/18/are-annuities-too-risky-for-insurance-companies …"Climate science has become controversial for primarily non-scientific reasons." http://www.newstatesman.com/ech/2012/12/brian-cox-and-robin-ince-politicians-must-not-elevate-mere-opinion-over-sc … "undermines confidence in science."“Big Data could be huge this year” http://www.forbes.com/… “But people have to figure out how to use it” time to hire competent people too ?"In All Probability: Climate Change and the Risk of More Storms Like Sandy" http://www.theatlantic.com/hive/2012/11/in-all-probability-climate-change-and-the-risk-of-more-storms-like-sandy/265402/#.UKqpwZpIg1A.twitter …"Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Mining, Statistics, Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic, etc" http://wmbriggs.com/blog/...     on@mattstat's blog"Occupy ACM: We are the 99%"http://windowsontheory.org/...acm-we-are-the-99/ via @bodyspacesoc@danielequercia"Data Science is NOT for everyone" http://analytical-solution.com/…"Let’s take the con out of randomization" http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/s-take-the-con-out-of-randomization-2/ … by Lars Pålsson Syll"most of the information is hidden in the correlation structure of the data" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ies.10315/abstract;jsessionid=839461EEE2C1F6908F67781399C141C5.d03t01 … see also Lewontin's http://en.wikipedia.org/27s_Fallacy …“Ranking the popularity of programming languages” on http://www.drewconway.com/...  "How can applied econometrics and analytics benefit your business?" (a post from June) http://econometricsense.blogspot.fr/n-applied-econometrics-and.html …"Put mindless econometrics and regression analysis where they belong – in the garbage can!" http://rwer.wordpress.com/…"six influential econometric textbooks in terms of causal concepts" http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r395.pdf … via http://chrisblattman.com/your-econometrics-textbook-wrong/ …"Methodological Mistakes and Econometric Consequences" http://www.era.org.tr/s..."traders are mostly educated in math or physics, often outside the United States, and their desks..." via http://www.nytimes.com/iness/new-technology-and-tougher-rules-shaking-up-fixed-income-trading.html … "...their desks are piled high with textbooks like the “R Graphs Cookbook” for working with obscure computer programming languages.""The changing complexity of congressional speech" (in the U.S.)http:// sunlightfoundation.com/b1/congressional-speech/ … via http://srqm.tumblr.comnothing new, but always interesting "What does randomness look like?" http://www.empiricalzeal.com/t-does-randomness-look-like/ … via @farnamstreet/"Are you a data evangelist? http://www.federalnewsradio.com/030318 …"Analytics is not everything - my notes from the roundtable on Big Data in Motion." http://www.kdnuggets.com/ata-in-motion.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#38;utm_medium=twitter&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kdnuggets-data-mining-analytics+%28KDnuggets%3A+Data+Mining+and+Analytics%29 … by @kdnuggetsvia @klakhani"Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970—2010" http://www.thelancet.com/t/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961719-X/abstract …"What Washington Think Tanks Like: Data"http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/t-washington-think-tanks-like-data/ … on @PVGlance's blogon arrogant Taleb, "I became successful because I knew what I learned in school about probability was bullshit"http:// chronicle.com/s-Not-a-Profile-of/136257/ …avec comme souvent quelques billets intéressants, en Français,"La Cour des comptes épingle les écoles de commerce" http://www.lemonde.fr/e/2012/12/28/la-cour-des-comptes-epingle-les-ecoles-de-commerce_1811097_3224.html … hausse des frais de scolarité, profusion illisible de diplômes..."Comment « Le Plus » du Nouvel Observateur exploite ses collaborateurs" http://www.acrimed.org/… via @DavidAbiker@antoninle papier toilette http://eljjdx.canalblog.com//12/23/25958296.html … via @opardon @Blogizmo cf. http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/... pour les aspects computationnels (migation started)"Travailler chez soi le soir..." http://www.rue89.com//12/24/travailler-chez-soi-le-soir-forcement-un-stress-237715 …Did I miss something ?“Ranking the popularity of programming languages” onhttp://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2892  pic.twitter.com/JQNlZfue