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Some writings worth reading"Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived" http://huffingtonpost.com/2014/…"Virtual Economies" http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/virtual-economies … see http://books.google.ca/books…RT @cdixon "Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities" http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/…"Biggest bank settlements with US authorities" http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/…"The Pros And Cons Of Open Sourcing Your Code" http://readwrite.com/2014/07/07/open… ht @moorejh"The Summer's Most Unread Book Is…" http://online.wsj.com/articles/the…"Americans try to place European countries on a map" http://buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans… "When Brits are asked to label the United States" http://buzzfeed.com/robinedds/its…and finally "What Happens When Americans Try To Label The Country Of Canada" http://buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/…"Transformers 4 is a master class in economics" http://vox.com/2014/7/6/5873099/transformer …"The Meteoric Rise in the Price of College Textbooks.." https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/492/… ht @ilovecharts"Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1%’s sick triumph over us all" http://salon.com/2014/06/…Small Data http://bbc.com/news… "A big week for statistical disagreements"MT @WellWork "Do doctors understand test results?" http://bbc.com/news/28166019 …"The Science of Turning Plants Into Booze" http://motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/inquiring…"They Have Seen the Future of the Internet, and It Is Dark" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/… by @qhardy"Unlock the Mysteries of Your Customer Relationships" http://hbr.org/2014/07/unlock… see also http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/…"Reimaging Facebook's Emotional Contagion Study" http://orbitaleccentric.blogspot.ca/2014/07/…"The biggest challenges for universities: a prof’s view" http://macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/… ht @raulpacheco"The Most Annoying Problem In 'Computing' Is Still Unsolved" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07 … by @kevinrooseWimbledon http://nytimes.com/2014/ … "Clear Rules but Uncertain Protocol for Bathroom Breaks""Where gun stores outnumber museums and libraries" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… via @visionscartoCorporate America and the World Cup, http://qz.com/228183/corporate… fewer conference calls while the US plays ht @BCAppelbaum"Data Science, Big Data and Statistics – can we all live together?" http://vimeo.com/91502942  via http://flowingdata.com/2014/…"Lionel Messi Is Impossible" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/… by @skepticalsports"What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades" http://nytimes.com/2014/… see also the Average of Handwriting http://wired.com/2014/07/this …"Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing" http://visual.ly/youll…"Retail investors are more influential than most people think" http://economist.com/news/finance-and-economics…"How Long Muslims Fast For Ramadan Around The World" http://huffingtonpost.com/2014/…"What makes fireworks colorful?" http://skunkbear.tumblr.com/90696652324…"Everything you need to know about UFOs" http://economist.com/21605918 "Why Computers Won’t Be Replacing You Just Yet" http://nytimes.com/2014/07/03/… by @m_sendhil"Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers" http://nature.com/nature/… predicting teen alcohol abuseMunich Re's World Map of Natural Hazards http://munichre.com/site/corporate/get/…"Everyone does drugs, but only minorities are punished for it" http://vox.com/2014/… by @germanrlopez"Do people choose pain over boredom?" http://bbc.com/news/science…"European Seismic Hazard Map" http://share-eu.org/node/90 " A Report of the London Workshop on the Future of Statistical Sciences" http://worldofstatistics.org/wos/… ht @ThomasSpeidel"World Maps of Life Expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2011" http://ourworldindata.org/data/…"An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance" http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/an-employee-dies-and-the-company-collects-the-insurance/ …rediscovering "It is Time to Stop Teaching Frequentism to Non-statisticians" http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2590  by @mattstat"Penalty kicks, as seen through Twitter data" https://blog.twitter.com/2014/… by @miguelrios"Eigenmorality" http://scottaaronson.com/blog/1820 RT @WSJGraphics Track the U.S. unemployment rate going back to 1948 (seasonally adjusted) http://on.wsj.com/1ki0xFf et un peu de lecture en françaisRT @TotoroInParis Comme l'Histoire de la Sexualité de Foucault, le Capital de Piketty est un livre acheté mais peu lu http://arretsurimages.net/breves/…Joe Sacco dans le Métro, à Paris http://lemonde.fr/culture/… "Cette fresque essaie de montrer l'ampleur du massacre""« Big Data » : le statisticien peut-il remplacer le savant ?" http://lemonde.fr/economie…"Bruxelles veut une utilisation massive du Big Data" http://numerama.com/magazine/… par @gchampeau"Un plan Big Data pour contrer les géants du Net " http://lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/… par @sandrinecassini"Les journalistes inquiets du numérique" http://authueil.org/?2014… par @Authueil"Mais que fait Gephi ?" http://bibliotheques.wordpress.com/2014/… ht @goulu"La France dans dix ans : mêmes experts, mêmes rapports ?" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/06…"Google cherche bourreau pour 'torturer des données'" http://lci.tf1.fr/economie/entreprise…"Les leçons des sanctions américaines contre BNP Paribas" http://la-croix.com/Actualite/Economie-Entreprises/…Prénoms et mentions au bac, édition 2014 http://coulmont.com/blog/2014/… le billet saisonnier de @coulmont"L'info en continu, machine à extrémisme" http://television.telerama.fr/television/… (on parle des chaînes d'info, pas de Twitter, ni de mon blog...)"Du rectum du ver à la crise de l'emploi scientifique" http://arretsurimages.net/emissions/2014… ht @HuetSylvestre"Bacheliers, c’était la dernière fois que vous avez écrit à la main !" http://culture-numerique.fr/1153  par @michelguillou ht @recriweb"Des médias de masse au multimédia" http://laviedesidees.fr/…[free ebook] "Qu’est-ce qu’une archive de chercheur ?" https://books.openedition.org/oep/721  par Jean-François BertAssurance auto et science fiction (?) http://lesechos.fr/idees-debats/sciences-prospective/…"Le data journalism, miroir aux alouettes ou renouvellement du métier ?" http://acrimed.org/article4393… par @BenSMMDid I miss something?