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Some writings worth reading,[dataviz] " Diving into today's rosy jobs report" http://bloomberg.com/dataview/2013-11-08/l … by @M_C_Klein(so true) "The Worst Twitter Graphic Yet" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-07/the-worst-… by @ritholtz here it is"Economics lecturers accused of clinging to pre-crash fallacies" http://theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/10/… via @moorehn and @rszbt"Science and Its Skeptics" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/… by @GaryMarcus"They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets." http://nytimes.com/2013/11/10/… via @angelagreca"High Finance" (via http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/stein/ … )"English Proficiency Falters Among the French" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/11/world/europe/… via @SoleneRoulet"Is 8 A.M.really the best time to drink your morning coffee?" http://fastcodesign.com/3020940/ … "think again...""Using R for Time Series Analysis" …http://a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.readthedocs.org/… via @moftasa see also @robjhyndman's https://otexts.org/fpp/  on forecasting. See also "steal this book" http://stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/ "Global Risks Report 2013" the report http://weforum.org/docs/WEF… and the data http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013/section… see e.g."Probability, Gambling and the Origins of Risk Management" http://moaf.org/publications-collections/…"Statistical significance as explained by The Economist" https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/ …"How the emergence of actuarial math stifled charity" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11 … by @TCJUK"Worry Over Inequality Occupies Wall Street" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/… by @jdlahart see"Why do probabilists take random variables to be Borel (and not Lebesgue) measurable?" http://mathoverflow.net/questions/31603/… via @CjBayesian"Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/… via @felixsalmon"Outsource Your Way to Success" http://nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/outsource… via @guillaume_all"Comparing Vastly Different Body Types of Olympic Athletes" http://mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/… (see http://howardschatz.com/  ) e.g.awesome ! "These Fascinating Maps Show The Origin Of Words We Use All The Time" http://businessinsider.com/european-maps… e.g. "beer"or "apple",or "orange""Your A/B Testing Isn’t Working Nearly as Well as You Think" http://wired.com/opinion/2013/11/…"Balance" http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/ … by @pzmyers via @Scienceblogs"The Cheerleader Effect: Why You're More Attractive in a Group" http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-…[U.S.] "What industry owns your state?" http://mojo.ly/HE9uMU  via @Wikisteff and @JillEBond"Canada is probably the most vulnerable country to the consequences of environmental change" http://thestar.com/news/gta/2013/11/08/… via @andrew_leachhttp://newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2013/11/11/… seeet comme toujours, un peu de lecture en français,"Monsieur Ayrault, s’il vous plaît, un petit milliard pour l’Université… sinon on va crever !" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/pascal-maillard/101113/ … via @gdelac"L'avenir numérique de l'Université" par Bernard Stiegler http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/bernard-stiegler/… via @lmerzeauLes singes et les conseillers financiers http://wp.me/p11Vwl-1pl  par @dlouapre (cf aussi http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/245  ou http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/5617 )"Borel, Fréchet, Darmois : La découverte des statistiques par les probabilistes français dans les années 1920" https://youtu.be/o29r0RuVQyc Did I miss something?I almost forgot.... here is the first animated gif created, like ever !