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Some writings, worth reading,"Why do we take physicists seriously?" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03… by @TCJUK"Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future" http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/quantify…"Are Simple Momentum Strategies Too Dumb? Introducing Probabilistic Momentum" http://cssanalytics.wordpress.com/2014/01… see also http://systematicinvestor.wordpress.com/2014/02/…via@randal_olson "A simple but elegant method to detect election fraud' http://pnas.org/content/1210722109 … see"What's Up With Big Data Ethics?" http://forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/…"redesigning how financial markets operate to mitigate the negative effects of high-speed trades" http://chicagotribune.com/business/ct-high-speed-trading… see also "Trade Time-stamps Differ Between Direct and Consolidated Feeds" http://nanex.net/aqck2/...  (via @nanexllc)"OpenStreetMap mapping progress of Guéckédou to support doctors in Guinea after Ebola outbreak" http://datarep.tumblr.com/post/80899782229/…"Is data privacy an out of date concept?" http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/03/27/…"Here's How The World's Most Brilliant People Scheduled Their Days" ht http://huffingtonpost.com/2014/03…"Google Flu Trends: The Limits of Big Data" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/…"How Facebook's Machines Got So Good At Recognizing Your Face" http://fastcolabs.com/3028414/…"Things cut in half" http://imgur.com/a/DtHiF  (ht @ilovecharts) e.g. A Leica Camera or a Plane"Data, driverless cars and the future of the insurance business" http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25…"Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States" http://usfinancialcapability.org/…"A satellite’s view of ship pollution" http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/id=80375 … (poke @visionscarto) see"How ''Extreme Levels'' of Monsanto's Herbicide Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm" http://truth-out.org/news/item/…"Media Coverage of Medical Journals: Do the Best Articles Make the News?" http://plosone.org/article/… via http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/…"Is Your City An Elegant Grid Or A Sprawling Chaotic Mess?" http://businessinsider.com/here … distribution of road orientations"A Very Serious Problem With Very Serious Journalism" http://thenation.com/blog/179009/… by @juliacarriew"The Mean Center of Population for the US Has Moved West Every Census Since 1790 (And Has Moved South Since 1920)""Still Not Significant" http://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/ … via @RosenKris and @hildabast"Paying for the Party" http://crookedtimber.org/2014/03/23/…"Do It For Denmark!" https://youtu.be/vrO3TfJc9Qw  #natalityvia @SamuelCoates "20 cultural divisions in Europe" pic.twitter.com/Ib7ql1sjRg (via http://atlasofprejudice.tumblr.com/ )"Every culture has a Polish joke—but only Americans make fun of lawyers." http://slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/features/2014…"Higher food prices are good for the poor ... in the long run" http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/… (see also http://elibrary.worldbank.org/10.1596/1813-9450 … )"A Backstage Tour of ggplot2" https://youtu.be/RHu5vgBZ1yQ "Big data: are we making a big mistake?" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8 … by @TimHarford"Disasters Cost More Than Ever" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/… by @RogerPielkeJr see also http://huffingtonpost.com/john-p-abraham-phd/…"USGS earthquake hazard U.S. map" http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/… (PGA, 2% in 50 years)via @ProfEmilyOster Toddler obesity: declining or not? http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/… @ProfEmilyOster on @FiveThirtyEightvia @ThomasPride "Scientists discover Tories’ reasoning ability rivals that of a 7-year-old human child" http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/03/…"Obesity levels amongst adults throughout states, provinces and territories of North America" http://www.reddit.com/user/atlasing "Japan, Korea, Singapore and the Arctic Sea Lanes" http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/japan… (ht @visionscarto)"Against beautiful journalism" http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2… by @felixsalmon"Shrinking Aral Sea" http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/… interesting (scary) animation, ht @Lohezclionautes see also http://esa.int/Our_Activities..."Number of Executions in Each State (in the U.S.) Since 1977" http://pewforum.org/2014/03/28/… see" The making of a paper – A praise for Slow Science" http://sylvaindeville.net/2014/03/24/… by @DevilleSy"Holes in donuts – the philosophical implications" http://improbable.com/2014/03/17/ … and http://improbable.com/2014/03/19/… see also http://columbia.edu/~av72/p…"Maps of global polarization" by @ErikVoeten (a few months ago) http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/… seeForthcoming papers in the Economic Policy Review http://newyorkfed.org/research/… ht @tylercowen on “too big to fail” banking system"Male-female sex ratios across the United States" http://reddit.com/user/atlasing  see"Behavioural economics and public policy" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ … by @TimHarford, via http://knowingandmaking.com/2014/…Nice! @_inundata’s palettes for R https://github.com/karthik/ … ht @revodavid e.g. &#62; display.wes.palette(4, "FantasticFox")ouch http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/… "For Columnist, a Change of Tone" by @FiveThirtyEight ht @balajis indeed, see"The Republic of Science" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03… by @TCJUK (yes, he's back!)Walking to the grocery store in five cities (in the U.S.) http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/03/27/… ht @StreetsblogNetet un peu de lecture en français,"La pollution de l'air tue plus que le tabac" https://google.ca/… et "tromperie sur la pollution de l’air" http://verel.typepad.fr/verel/… via @carnetsolA Paris, "les noms des stations de métro pris au pied de la lettre" http://golem13.fr/janol… Janol Apin dans les 90s,"Plantez un piano au beau milieu d’une gare" http://romainelubrique.org/...  par @romainelubrique"L'architecture de survie en milieux urbains hostiles" …http://laboratoireurbanismeinsurrectionnel.blogspot.fr/2014/…"Une femme à la direction du groupe?" (via @fgri)Did I miss something?