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Yes, the FIFA World Cup started last week...For more serious posts and articles (or not), some writings worth reading[world cup] MT @TwitterData "Replay the #ENG vs #ITA match on Twitter" http://cartodb.com/v/worldcup/match/?vis=d885a186-f422… and how to speak Italian like a native, lesson 1FIFA world cup ? how do you call that sport, again ? (via http://theatlantic.com/international/372771…)[(massive) free ebook] "Mining of Massive Datasets" http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/… by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey D. Ullmaninteresting points, actually http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/data-visualization-mistakes… "Why Most People's Charts &#38; Graphs Look Like Crap" by @rtcrooks"Academic Publisher Fights Publication Of Paper Criticizing Publishers' Price Increases And Profits" https://techdirt.com/articles/20140605/05175627467… ht @TheSFReader"Inside the Data Spectacle" https://academia.edu/7354786/… by @melgregg"Full Moon on Friday the 13th" http://researchmaniacs.com/Moon/FullMoon… today, next time will be in August 2049"Charles Darwin and Alan Turing both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension" http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012…"Star Trek Crew Members watch Miley Cyrus performance" https://youtu.be/qVTWfZgK0ew  (via http://golem13.fr/star-trek…)"3 Weird Ways Your Plate Tricks You Into Eating More" http://nymag.com/scienceofus/…"Math for 7-year-olds" http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for… someday, kids will learn that maths are fun"Blinding the spy in our pockets" http://huitema.wordpress.com/2014/…, an answer to "A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online" http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/…via @DiegoKuonen "Understanding Uncertainty: Visualising Probabilities" http://plus.maths.org/content…"The battle against the high frequency traders" http://theguardian.com/business/2014/…"World Cup of Everything Else" http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents… e.g. BMI"university staff feel burdened by a heavy workload and lack of job opportunities" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/… (via @CollectifPAPERA )RT @ValaAfshar "The world divided into regions with a GDP of 1 trillion dollars" (ht @adelaigue)"A Statistical Scientist Meets aPhilosopher of Science" http://rmm-journal.de/downloads/… (via http://statsblogs.com/2014/06/14/…)could you possibly be more wrong? (ht @WilliamReymond) actually I guess not (those two points are almost antimodal)"p-value weirdness in a world of big data" http://fredrikdeboer.com/2014/03/30/p-value-weirdness-in-a-world-of-big-data/ …"The World Cup Can Help Test Economic Theories" http://wnytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday… (indeed http://calendrier.polymtl.ca/426123 …)Game of Thrones Cycle http://thedoghousediaries.com/5805 "Can You Handle the Market’s Stress Test?" http://stream.wsj.com/story/… by @jasonzweigwsj"Effects of acute stress exposure on striatal activity during Pavlovian conditioning with monetary gains and losses" http://journal.frontiersin.org/10.3389/…"What does it mean when someone favorites your Tweet?" http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/what … short answer: it's complicated..."The Cardinal Sin of Data Mining and Data Science: Overfitting" http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/cardinal-sin-data-mining-data-science.html … by @kdnuggets"A portrait of Europe’s white working class" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4139381a-f1bb-11e3-a2da-00144feabdc0.html#axzz34c2LnmAW … by Simon Kupergood point MT @ValaAfshar "Big data is the answer..."Tips for taking good (at least better) food photos http://thekitchn.com/190758 … intereting tips, by @oishiieats and @eeddbbmmBehavioral Economics vs. Psychology, http://huffingtonpost.com/adam-grant/… by @AdamMGrant"Tracking the Gaze" http://blog.art21.org/2013/U52OqB_yk7w … eye tracking (old style) http://wexler.free.fr/… cf"Why are we focusing so much on what girls are wearing?" http://nytimes.com/2014/06/14/opinion/ … ht @mathbabedotorg (are we?)"How Long Do U.S. Presidents Live?" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… via http://jama.jamanetwork.com/201958 … (and yes, I found it odd to use as a benchmark the life expectancy at birth) see"What is the very first thing you do when you get your hands on a new data set?" asked @hmason and the answers are http://simplystatistics.org/2014/06/13…"Percentage of people speaking English in E.U. by country" (the question was more "If we forget about the mother language, which other language do you speak?") ht http://jakubmarian.com/map… via http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/… see"I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are" http://fool.com/investing/general/… by @tmfhousel ht @trengriffin[free ebook] "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R" http://bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/… by James, Witten, Hastie and TibshiraniIsochronic Passage Chart for Travelers (departing from London, ht http://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/ ) by Francis Galton, 1881et un peu de lecture en français,Communication scientifique http://slate.fr/life/87965/theorie… : ou comment passer de http://nature.com/ng/journal/… à http://meltycampus.fr/etre … (ht @goulu)Vous êtes handicapé et le contrôleur ne vous aide pas ? Vous voulez acheter un billet grande ligne en banlieue ? etc http://paris-luttes.info/voyageurs… car "On parle toujours de la violence du fleuve, jamais de celle des berges qui l'enserrent" (B. Brecht), merci @JulieDelPapavia @GrandjeanMartin et @LeHuffPost: Chili - Australie pic.twitter.com/4WibsKrgA1 en statistiques, minute par minute http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2014/…"vous avez dit « enculé » ?" http://lmsi.net/Vous-avez-dit-encule … "Réflexions sur une injure" ht @FrenchRedFrog et @zgur_RT @mixlamalice "En gros, on redécouvre juste les statistiques et leurs usages potentiels (big data ou pas)" http://lemonde.fr/education/…"Carte de la distance moyenne entre domicile et travail en 2008" via @Andre_Broto et @OlivierRazemon en Ile-de-Francej'avais raté le "Et si la France faisait de sa matière grise le moteur de sa croissance?" http://lexpress.fr/education/… de @davidenkoff"Le crédit d'impot recherche ?..." http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/… par @HuetSylvestre ht @AlbertinePDroit du Travail (en France) "Un salarié peut-il dire à son employeur qu’il est un « trou du cul » ?" http://rocheblave.com/avocats/injures/ …"Les nouveaux pères ne sont pas des gens fabuleux" http://slate.fr/story/88063/… par @tomsias (en effet...)"Dormir ? Quand vous serez morts !" https://lemonde.fr/livres/ … (sur http://versobooks.com/1570-24-7  de Jonathan Crary)merci @adelaigue qui a déterré le joli "La crise est finie!" dans http://bourse.blogs.challenges.fr/… (02/04/2008)"Apprendre le code à l’école ?" http://hyperbate.fr/dernier/?p=30603 …être climatosceptique c'est «comme dire que la Lune est faite de fromage» http://slate.fr/story/88519/… (mais... ce n'est pas le cas ? https://youtu.be/Ug8aM9v40Sg )Did I miss something?(yes, summer is coming)