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Some writings worth reading"A 'peer review and citation ring' was apparently rigging the review process to get articles published" http://washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix… ht @mattstat"Forecasting Elections with Non-Representative Polls" http://stat.columbia.edu/gelman/research… via http://kdnuggets.com/2014/07/…on the importance and effectiveness of data visualization in parsing big data http://blog.visual.ly/… "The View From Bloomberg""How Birth Year Influences Political Views" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014… by @amadacox ht @blaquans"Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013" http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/…"The likeness of fetal growth and newborn size across non-isolated populations" http://thelancet.com/journals/landia/…"How Do We Know How Many Undocumented Immigrants There Are?" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/… by @bencasselman"How Education Affects the U.S." http://topeducationdegrees.org/stats/  e.g."Is Data Visualization the “Front-End” for Big Data?" http://itvt.com/will_on_wednesdays… by @wkreth"Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative" http://boingboing.net/2014/07/09/ … by @doctorow"Do genes shape behavior and history, or are they malleable?" http://nytimes.com/2014/07/13/books/ … see also @david_dobbs's http://daviddobbs.net/smoothpebbles/ …"The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world" https://medium.com/marcos_otero/… "Maybe a little more than 10""The key to England’s economic growth: The rich outlived the poor" http://pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/key…"Forget the Shortest Route Across a City; New Algorithm Finds the Most Beautiful" http://technologyreview.com/view/528836…"Crack Down on Scientific Fraudsters" http://nytimes.com/2014/07… by @armarcus and @ivanoransky"Group Decision Makingin Honey Bee Swarms" http://ece.ohio-state.edu/~passino/…"Beyond a joke: how to study laughter scientifically" http://theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/…"Routing All Travel Through the Cloud" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/10… by @qhardyThe future of universities http://economist.com/news/briefing/… "staid higher-education business is about to experience a welcome earthquake" ht @reichlabThe tide is high, Michael Marten http://michaelmarten.com/  (ht http://viralnova.com/…)"The Bias Against Black Dogs" http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/… ht @tylercowen"The Decline of Drudgery and The Paradox of Hard Work" http://federalreserve.gov/pubs/ … by @mileskimballabout Facebook study, "It's a golden age for research" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/… by @duncanjwatts hopefully the end of experimental economics?"Argentina and the Netherlands: The Confident vs. the Humble" http://nytimes.com/2014/07/10/upshot/…"Why does data-based predictive analysis work so well in baseball and so badly in football?" http://newstatesman.com/future-proof/2014/07/… by @iansteadman"Can You Die From a Broken Heart?" http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/… see also Jagger &#38; Sutton (1991) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/4780100311…"Why the World Cup Suddenly Has So Many Goals" http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/… (about the aerodynamics of the World Cup soccer ball)"The Ins and Outs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average" http://online.wsj.com/125/…"Should female secretaries be paid at the same rate as male landscapers?" http://online.wsj.com/articles/one-…"Canada is Really Big, but Not Empty" http://space.io9.com…"Antihubrisines" http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/… via http://mark.reid.name/blog… ht @JohnDCookAntihubrisines, according to John W. Tukey in his 1986 paper, Sunset Salvo, are little pearls of wisdom to keep in mind if you suspect you are being afflicted by hubris. They are to “suffering philosophy” what antihistamines are to suffering sinuses:"To statisticians, hubris should mean the kind of pride that fosters and inflated idea of one’s powers and thereby keeps one from being more than marginally helpful to others. … The feeling of “Give me (or more likely even, give my assistant) the data, and I will tell you what the real answer is!” is one we must all fight against again and again, and yet again."Included in Tukey’s prescription are number of strains of advice, both qualitative and quantitative. Among my favourites is this very bracing tonic that should be administered whenever you plan to start number crunching:"The data may not contain the answer. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.""Israel does not want peace. There is nothing I have ever written that I would be happier to be proved wrong about." http://haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense…"When Beliefs and Facts Collide" http://nytimes.com/2014/07/… by @BrendanNyhan"On the emptiness of failed replications" http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jmitchel/… (see also http://nature.com/news/…)"Why People Used to Have Children" http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.co.uk/2014/…"Why the Pigeonhole Principle Is One of Math's Most Powerful Ideas" http://io9.com/why-the-pigeonhole… see e.g. http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2395 "Dutch Goalie Told Opponents He Knew Where They Were Going To Shoot Their Penalty Kicks, Turned Out To Be Right" http://businessinsider.com/tim-…horizontal and vertical lines, https://youtu.be/l3Es9cNH7I8  via http://io9.com/this… ht @cynorrhodonMapping the US-Mexico border fence http://cironline.org/blog/post/surprising… via @Geopolitics2020A Better Security Question http://tedmccagg.typepad.com/drawings/…et un peu de lecture en français,Toi aussi, révise les probabilités conditionnelles avec http://liberation.fr/societe/2014/07/… via @blaquans et @askmedia_"Commission open data en santé" http://drees.sante.gouv.fr…Les hôpitaux utilisent les données de carte de crédit pour prédire la santé http://gizmodo.fr/2014/07/07… incroyables données des cartes de crédit"Y a-t-il des compétences “Data” spécifiques ?" http://fing.tumblr.com/post/60060091542…"Pire que l’autre, la nouvelle science économique" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/… par @Laura_Raim"Le Monde diplomatique: un concept éditorial hybride au confluent du journalisme, de l’université et du militantisme" http://lectures.revues.org/15137 passer (enfin) aux logiciels libres http://numerama.com/magazine/29955…"que ce soit dans l'entreprise ou ailleurs, nous vivons dans le culte de la performance individuelle" http://inventin.lautre.net/contributions…RT @mXli1 "Le génocide des Tutsi : l’histoire au ras des collines" hist-geo http://aggiornamento.hypotheses.org/2196 le bac avec mension (via @Bescherelle) oui oui !Did I miss something?