{"word_count": 666, "character_count": 6218}
Some writings worth reading, starting with"Mark Hansen to journalists: 'You have to get your hands dirty. You have to write some code" http://capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/10/8534927/…Don't get me wrong, however, I don't want to overly fetishize the task of coding, but in part, knowing to code makes you better able to think about and work with digital technology. Being able to code is, well, code for having a better facility with technology. And that, that my friends, is ultimately about being an effective citizen in our data driven, code-ridden, algorithm rhythm world. My answer to the Atlantic writer's question of course is very different. I think all journalists need to code because an effective democracy depends on all citizens being able to understand and think about technology. This is not done from the sidelines. You have to get your hands dirty. You have to write some code. [to be continued...]"How economics suffers from de-politicised mathematics" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.de/2013/09/ …Interesting "real guide to Twitter" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/10/… by @atotalmonet[R tip] http://stackoverflow.com/19612348/ … "Break X Axis in R""Be skeptical of everything, not just Twitter" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/10/ … and http://gigaom.com/2013/10/26/ … via @datawl[free ebook] "Markov Chains and Mixing Times" http://oberlin.edu/math/faculty/wilmer/… by David Levin, Yuval Peres and Elisabeth Wilmer"Coffee v smoothies: Which is better for you?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24621394"Everybody, line up" http://tmbbq.com/everybody-line-up/ … "the impact of a BBQ line" via @tylercowen"Citography: visualization of nineteen thousand journals through their recent citations" http://researchtrends.com/issue26-january-2012/… see"Energy and Equity" (written in 1973) http://worldcarfree.net/resources/freesources/… by Ivan Illich[ebook] "Practical Ethics" http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/… by Peter Singer, course in March https://coursera.org/course/practicalethics"Safecracking the Brain" http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/safecracking-the-brain … "What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves" by @virginiahughes"On causality in econometrics textbooks" by @Chris_Auld on his blog http://chrisauld.com/2013/10/08/…[free ebook] "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" http://inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf "No sex in the city" http://theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/… "What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out""Create your own map" http://worldmapgenerator.com/fr/daVinci  via @VisionsCarto see e.g."Dude!" http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/ …"The macro foundations of microeconomics" http://crookedtimber.org/2013/10/25/… by @JohnQuiggin via @wonkmonk_Interesting debate between Chris Auld (http://chrisauld.com/2013/10/23/ …) and Unlearning Economics (http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/ …) via @Noahpinion"iPads, price and self-selection" http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/10/24/… via @ritholtz"Things Super Successful People Do Before 8 AM" http://forbes.com/sites/jennifercohen/2013/10/… it's not make the kids' lunchbox, or check if bike tires are inflated"The End of Hypocrisy" http://foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry …"What exactly do student evaluations measure?" http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/10/21… see also the study http://econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/51579These studies confirm the common belief that good teachers can get bad evaluations: Teaching effectiveness, as measured by subsequent performance and career success, is negatively associated with student teaching evaluations. While one should be cautious in generalizing the conclusions because the two student populations might not be representative of students at large (or at least of Berkeley students), these are by far the best studies we know of. They are the only controlled, randomized experiments; they are from different continents and cultures; and their findings are concordant. [to be continued...][free ebook] "Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning" http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/"Economics as science" http://technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/…"The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It" http://technologyreview.com/featuredstory/… via @cnaux"Extract citation data from Google Scholar" with R, http://jameskeirstead.ca/blog/ … via @rbloggers"The Future of Higher Education" https://fee.org/the_freeman/arena/… via @tylercowen"How the Internet Is Changing What Economists Do" http://thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/10/22/… by @MarkThoma"Restoring F. P. Ramsey" http://the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/…"The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability" http://soc.hawaii.edu/mora/PublicationsCopyRighted/…"Why things can always get worse, even when you’re battling zombies." http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/…"The evolution of western dance music" http://thomson.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/infographic/… (1800-2000)"The debate on discounting: Reconciling positivists and ethicists" http://idei.fr/doc/by/gollier/ … by Christian Gollier[free ebook] "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning" http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/…"What makes a data visualization memorable?" http://seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/10/wha… via @drago_carlo"My experience of learning R - from basic graphs to performance tuning" http://lab.brightnorth.co.uk/2013/09… on @BrightNorth's blog"Is Obamacare in a Death Spiral?" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-21… see @onceuponA's http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/delaying…"By 2019, humans will be outnumbered" http://xkcd.com/1281 seeet un peu de lecture en français,"Debout les morts" http://article11.info/~~themedata~~/… très belle analyse de "The Walking Dead" (le comic book pas le tv show) via @Rezonet"Seuls les morts pourront rester." http://cqfd-journal.org/Seuls…"Julia: le successeur de R ?" http://bioinfo-fr.net/julia… via @NerosTie sur le blog de @BioinfoFrEn France, "15 millions de grands-parents" http://insee.fr/fr/themes/1469 via @VisionsCarto cfDid I miss something?