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A lot of interesting posts, here and there"If you want to create and capture lasting value, look to build a monopoly" http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536 … "Competition Is for Losers""The abuse of mobile-phone data" http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21615622-junk-science-putting-innocent-people-jail-two-towers … "Junk science is putting innocent people in jail""France sends emigrants to more countries than anyone else" http://www.vox.com/2014/9/12/6132737/whos-sending-immigrants-to-the-most-other-countries-the-french …"Perpetual War, and Shame, Is Our Policy" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-hoh/isis-iraq-perpetual-war_b_5801952.html …"Britain has changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. A failed government policy must take much of the blame" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/295fefee-37fd-11e4-b69d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3DDgA3yua …"Crayola Crayon Colours" http://learnr.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/ggplot2-crayola-crayon-colours/ … (with ggplot2) ht @zevross"Fortune favours the few: What it means to be a Scot" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/what-it-means-to-be-a-scot/article20576163/?service=mobile … (from Québec to Scotland)"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf … ht @FrenchRedFrog"How long women wait to have a second child , by country" http://datarep.tumblr.com/post/97318372690/how-long-women-wait-to-have-a-second-child-by …"A Creative Commons Guide to Sharing Your Science" https://www.mysciencework.com/news/11561/a-creative-commons-guide-to-sharing-your-science … ht @alserresRT @hadleywickham "Are you an #rstats user who misses python's beautiful soup? Please try out rvest (http://github.com/hadley/rvest  )""Tidy Data" http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i10/paper  by @hadleywickhamHow Ebola is spreading, day by day, via http://healthmap.org/ebola/  &#38; @Scott_Gilmore"Sustainability in the Age of Big Data" http://d1c25a6gwz7q5e.cloudfront.net/reports/2014-09-12-Sustainability-in-the-Age-of-Big-Data.pdf …"The Impact of Mega-Catastrophes on Insurers: An Exposure-Based Analysis of the U.S. Homeowners’ Insurance Market" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.12252/abstract …"Don't Take 'No' For An Answer: An Experiment With Actual Organ Donor Registrations" http://www.nber.org/papers/w20378"at what age do members of the opposite sex look best to men and women" (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2g464o/at_what_age_do_members_of_the_opposite_sex_look/ …) http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/christian-rudder-dataclysm-okcupid/"Identifying Moral Hazard in Car Insurance Contracts" http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/schools/economics/about/documents/sarit%20weisburd%20-%20identifying%20moral%20hazard%20in%20car%20insurance.pdf …scikit-learn http://scikit-learn.org/stable/  "Machine Learning in Python""How Do We Decipher Sex in Daily Life?" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/09/12/how-do-we-decipher-sex-in-daily-life/ … ht @Uneheuredepeine, try this one : where is the man?"Implement k-Nearest Neighbors in Python From Scratch" http://machinelearningmastery.com/tutorial-to-implement-k-nearest-neighbors-in-python-from-scratch/ … ht @YhatHQ"World Median Ages" http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/140904/map-youth-elderly-world-political-unrest-economy-unemployment … by @simkhosla see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age …"Map some noise: how your smartphone can help tackle city sound pollution" http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/12/map-noise-how-smartphone-help-tackle-city-sound-pollution-noisetube …what are you more likeliy to die from? http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/140610/map-most-deadly-diseases-by-country …"A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip" http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12565  [djvu]"A new open-source package for estimating causal effects in time series" http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2014/09/causalimpact-new-open-source-package.html … (the CausalImpact R package)"Dad, I'm considering a career in organised crime..." (via @9ag)"The Economist magazine has had a “Slavery Problem” since 1843" http://africasacountry.com/the-economist-magazine-has-had-a-slavery-problem-since-1843/ …"Woman Tax" http://womantax.tumblr.com/  "What Gendered Pricing Costs Women" by @GeFranck (mostly in French)"What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html … by @mtosterholm ht @influenza_bio"Show me your jet fighters and I’ll tell you who you are" http://www.martingrandjean.ch/data-visualization-jet-fighters/ … by @GrandjeanMartin pic.twitter.com/x4LFD3Uezzon positive utility of pissing on your own shoes http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/10/notion-geocentric-universe-come-criticism-copernican-astronomy/ …"The persistence of consumption habits" http://www.voxeu.org/article/persistence-consumption-habits …"Social Media Explained" by @JBearne ht @conradhackett"Big Data: The Next Revolution of Sport" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-attias/big-data-the-next-revolut_b_5800342.html …"Boat Migrants Risk Everything for a New Life in Europe" http://time.com/2894694/massimo-sestini-boat-italy-migrants-mare-nostrum-risk-europe/ … ht @lpolgreen"When A Machine Learning Algorithm Studied Fine Art Paintings, It Saw Things Art Historians Had Never Noticed" https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/when-a-machine-learning-algorithm-studied-fine-art-paintings-it-saw-things-art-historians-had-never-b8e4e7bf7d3e …by @thereaIbanksy 9-11"Forget Cat Photos: This Prof Is Making Calculus Go Viral" http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/09/10/forget-cat-photos-this-prof-is-making-calculus-go-viral/ … by @GeorgeAnders"The Case For Letting Employees Choose Their Own Job Titles" http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034987/evidence/the-case-for-letting-employees-choose-their-own-job-titles … by @e_jaffe"Graphic methods for presenting facts" (ht @albertocairo) https://archive.org/details/graphicmethodsfo00brinrich …U.S.A "you're still a superpower, ... but you no longer know how to act like one" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/09/national_insecurity_obama_foreign_policy …"What's the best language for learning math?" http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-best-language-for-math-1410304008?mod=e2tw …"Airlines have never been better at making certain your flight is full" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/08/airlines-have-never-been-better-at-making-certain-your-flight-is-full/ …should you be proud? (ht @FCFYield)et un peu de lecture en français,"Quand l'électeur moyen épouse la cause des plus riches" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20140911trib6ab4b1d46/quand-l-electeur-moyen-epouse-la-cause-des-plus-riches.html …MT @jeunesadmd "Doit-on mettre les opposants à l'euthanasie dans cette position pour qu'ils changent d'avis ?!""Osons parler de la fraude scientifique" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/osons-parler-de-la-fraude-scientifique …scientifiques (et ingénieurs) en France, http://www.iesf.fr/enquete/2014/Ingenieurs-2014.pdf … ht @matti_sg_frDid I miss something interesting?