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Some writings worth reading, here and thereRT @Alan_D_Duncan "From my blog archives: "The religious warfare of data modelling"" http://www.forbes.com/bradpeters/ …"5 Rules For Making Graphs" http://hackerspace.lifehacker.com…"10 Reasons Why I Ignored Your Resume" http://mashable.com/2014/ …"Why macroeconomists, not bankers, should set interest rate" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fr/2014/… ht @econoclaste"World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations… with Poisson regression, see Dimitri Karlis'paper http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/…MT @FabienneCASSAGN Les mecs ne peuvent pas faire 2 choses à la fois : @Garriberts Trafic Youporn pendant la finale"An urge to jump affirms the urge to live" http://cpnp.org/88955 … "an empirical examination of the high place phenomenon""The Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce" http://plosone.org/0101698 … "1% have published something in each and every year""The Middle East Friendship Chart" http://slate.com/blogs/the_world_/… (I should call that Geopolitics for Dummys, perfect for me)"When the U.S. Almost Nuked the Moon" http://priceonomics.com/when…"Why stepwise and similar selection methods are bad, and whatyou should use" http://nesug.org/a07.pdf … ht @DEAGiles"Pack Like a Nerd" https://medium.com/@sofauxboho/… "Optimizing underwear"about teaching entropy (ht @SLSingh) http://comic.hmp.is.it/entropy/ "Maps of the Crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014… and http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/…"The Behavioral Economics Guide" http://fehradvice.com/blog/… via @FehrAdvice and @davdittrich"Carriers: A Webcomic on Health, Luck, and Life" http://nautil.us… "They're odds. That's all they are. Not fate, just probabilities."awesome http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/  "This visualization displays the data for one random NYC yellow taxi on a single day"MT @snowakowski "Google is not really a search company. It’s a machine-learning company" http://wired.com/2014/…"A world without mosquitoes" http://nature.com/…"Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing" http://theatlantic.com/features/…"Real-time NBA Championship Odds Before and After LeBron James's Announcement" http://toddwschneider.com/posts/…MT @pierrebri "No need to really speak it, even failing at French is good for you" http://nytimes.com/2014/…"Male dance moves that catch a woman’s eye" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20826469  good https://youtu.be/3m9b1ZWxCuA  vs. bad https://youtu.be/Vusg_76Eujo "Graphic Language: The Curse of the CEO" http://bloomberg.com/infographics/… via http://www.bloomberg.com/2014-07-16/…, e.g."Cursing on conference calls" over time"The Econometrics of Temporal Aggregation" http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/… (part 1) and http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/… (part 2)"They’re Dropping Like Middle Initials" http://nytimes.com/2014…"Variations on rolling forecasts" http://robjhyndman.com/… nice post by @robjhyndman"Mapping the Garbage Patches of the Oceans: measured number of plastic items per square km" http://imgur.com/r/MapPorn/…RT @laurenfosternyc and @CHenneman "Six Lessons America Seems Thoroughly Incapable of Learning" http://foreignpolicy.com/…"The Dynamo and the Computer" http://eml.berkeley.edu/~bhhall/ … "an historical perspective of modern productivity paradox" ht @therealprotonk"What is random?""Universities are still standing" http://theconversation.com/… "The MOOC revolution that never happened."hierarchical clustering of journals with in/out citations, http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/treemap… e.g. Nature"Getting started with visualization after getting started with visualization" http://flowingdata.com/…"The Corruption of Peer Review Is Harming Scientific Credibility" https://online.wsj.com …"How is the United States viewed around the world?" (via http://pewglobal.org/…)"Income inequality matters less than wealth inequality, so why is everyone still talking about taxing your salary?" http://foreignpolicy.com/…"Nerds vs. Hipsters" http://reddit.com/r/funny/… ht @J_P_Boucher"tu" or "vous" in French? http://latimes.com/opinion/ …et un peu de lecture en français,"La fin du do-it-yourself" http://hyperbate.fr/30836 … par @Jean_no ou la vision de l'internet en 1995"L’attention, un bien précieux" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/…"Le capitalisme contre le sommeil: dormeurs de tous pays, unissez-vous!" http://lesinrocks.com/2014/…"La faucille et le marteau : emblème mystérieux du pays des Soviets" http://fr.rbth.com/art/2014/…"Un parfum d’idéologie dans l’algorithme" http://alexismons.tumblr.com/… sur #airbnb (voir aussi http://venturebeat.com/ …)Did I miss something interesting?