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Not only is 145 a Leyland number, since 145=34+43, much more fun, it is a factorion, i.e. it is the sum of the factorials of its digits 145=1!+4!+5! which is quite a rare property actually (the other known one being 40,585... so the next time I will mention this property on my blog is probably in 400 years)."Who owns your personal data?" https://economist.com/blogs/schumpeter… "The incorporated woman""The Anxieties of Big Data" http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-anxieties-of-big-data/ …2014 is the year we learned about Squeaky Dolphin. That’s the Pynchon-worthy code name for a secret program created by British intelligence agency GCHQ to monitor millions of YouTube views and Facebook likes in real time. Of course, this was just one of many en masse data-collection programs exposed in Edward Snowden’s smuggled haul. But the Squeaky Dolphin PowerPoint deck reveals something more specific. It outlines an expansionist program to bring big data together with the more traditional approaches of the social and humanistic sciences: the worlds of small data. GCHQ calls it the Human Science Operations Cell, and it is all about supplementing data analysis with broader sociocultural tools from anthropology, sociology, political science, biology, history, psychology, and economics.GCHQ and the NSA are the old guards of big data, and despite their enormous budgets, technical infrastructure, and trained analysts, the big-data bonanza is not enough: They are reaching for other epistemologies by the dozen to try and make sense of it all. Though, as the slide above demonstrates, the deck contains enough academic disciplines for a royal flush (including a pair of ethnographies), it will never be enough: It reads like an extraordinary testament to anxiety. Already, the lived reality of big data is suffused with a kind of surveillant anxiety — the fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us. Like a fluorescent light in a dark corridor, it can both show too much and not enough. Anxiety, as Sianne Ngai has written, has a temporality that is future oriented: it is an expectation emotion, and the expectation is generally of risk, exposure, and failure. British group Plan C in their blistering manifesto “We Are All Very Anxious” argue that anxiety is the dominant affect of our current phase of capitalism, engendering political hopelessness, insecurity, and social separation. But the trick of a dominant cultural affect is that it functions as a kind of open secret: Everyone knows it, but nobody talks about it. In order to work against it, we first have to recognize the condition and trace its contours. [to be continued...]"Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t." http://nytimes.com/2014/06/29/… ht @tomroud"Why the web isn’t as meritocratic as you think" http://forumblog.org/2014/06/meritocracy …dataviz' of U.K. census data, http://datashine.org.uk… via http://flowingdata.com/2014/06/26… e.g. Highest level of qualification"Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weatherin mid-latitudes" http://marine.rutgers.edu/~francis/… via http://rtcc.org/2014/06/23…"The great map debate" http://thenational.ae/news/uae-news/science/… Peters vs. Mercator"Real-time lightning map" http://blitzortung.org/Webpages/… via http://flowingdata.com/2014/06/26/…"Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks" http://pnas.org/8788… ht @znmeb see also "Emotional Contagion on Facebook? More Like Bad Research Methods" http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/06/23/…"Anti-immigrant sentiment is down in the United States — way down" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/… by @aaronblakewpHigher education http://economist.com/news/leaders/… "Creative destruction"amazing new book by Harry Joe, http://scholar.google.com/… "Dependence Modeling with Copulas""World Cup Players' Penalty Kick Patterns" http://graphics.wsj.com/wc-penalty… see"Data Science in Python" http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/data… by @YhatHQWhy the sky is blue? Why internet is blue? http://theawl.com/2014/06/internet…"In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters" (at least in the U.S.) http://nytimes.com/2013/07/22/… ht @stuartathompson"Research Assessment Systems and their Impacts on Academic Work" http://edu.au.dk/fileadmin/… ht http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…Canada http://cbc.ca/toronto/features/summerwinter/… "Remember how miserable the winter was, and enjoy the summer even more!""Bailing out banks is not a lucrative business" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/24/… (about http://cornellpress.cornell.edu…)"The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the U.S." http://riskybusiness.org/uploads/…RT @stuartathompson Tweets containing "nazi" during the USA-Germany game"Why Germany Wants to Look Like Its Soccer Team" http://psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law…"Divided Loyalties in the Home of the Brave" http://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/25/ …"What Changes in Rainfall are Typical during El Niño?" http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/IFRC/… see"World Cup flop rankings for 1st 32 games" https://plot.ly/~SteveMaier  by @SteveMaier_ (via http://online.wsj.com/articles/…)"The World Cup Flopping Rankings" http://online.wsj.com/1403660175…"Where can I find large datasets open to the public?" http://quora.com/Where-can…"A new measure shows the financial sector’s expanding share of the economy" http://economist.com/21605764 "Quantified Self and the ethics of personal data" http://bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2014/… by @cubicgarden"What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse" http://wired.com/2014/06/… by @adamspacemann"Can Classic Moral Stories Promote Honesty in Children?" http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/ …"Is it going to rain? Your local weatherman exaggerates the worst. Hyperbole sells." http://randalolson.com/2014/06/21/… see"Ebooks vs paper" http://ft.com/53d3096a … by @microphilosophy (my point of view on that topic did not change http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/7142 )datamining (ht http://dilbert.com/strips/2000-11-13/ …)"Using Python's sci-packages to prepare data for Machine Learning tasks and other data analyses" http://sebastianraschka.com/... ht @nucAmbiguous"Before &#38; After" http://estherhonig.com/before--after… by @estherhonig see"This Is Going To Take Forever" http://joegp.com/halfcut/  (ht @J_P_Boucher) on Zeno's paradox...et un peu de lecture en français,"La normalité est-elle la nouvelle liberté ?" http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/06/27…"Le viol avec extrême violence: une arme de destruction massive" http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/guybernard-cadiere/…"Pourquoi la longue traîne [wiki…] ne marche pas ?" http://lafeuille.blog.lemonde.fr/… ht @gunthertRT @tsoulcie via @bouletcorp"Sting, Piketty et l’euthanasie du rentier" http://blogues.journaldemontreal.com/libreechange/pauvrete/ … par @IanikMarcil"Publier des photos sur les réseaux sociaux, une pratique à risques" http://informer-autrement.fr…MT @CFouillere "Carte de France de l'évolution de la population active" 2011 vs 2006L'Etat bolivien a décidé d'inverser le sens de lecture de l'heure sur les horloges http://courrierinternational.com/article/2014/06/27…"Google est une synecdoque du web à cause de sa position métonymique" http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/… (oui, à l'occasion, je profite d'une insomnie pour apprendre des gros mots)intéressant ! MT @ArSaintMartin "Chercheurs et intermittents, la trahison socialiste" http://lemonde.fr/idees/article/2014…"Le rêve du multilinguisme dans la science" http://martingrandjean.ch/multilinguisme… par @GrandjeanMartin"Le tout petit monde des journaux télévisés" (français) http://television.telerama.fr/television/le … (ht http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/06/27/vision…)"Google doit-il communiquer sur son véritable objectif, le transhumanisme ?" http://larevuedudigital.com/2014/05/expert/…"Coupe du monde: Comment le Big Data coache l'équipe d'Allemagne" http://lexpress.fr/actualite/sport/football/…"Une société de données, ce n'est pas comme une société de statistiques" http://franceculture.fr/emission… par @xporte"effet pervers du système de financement : utilisation de moyens publics pour acquérir des financements publics" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/… via @HuetSylvestre, "Stratégie nationale de la recherche : revue critique" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/…"Statactivisme" http://editions-zones.fr/… "Comment lutter avec des nombres""Données des accidents corporels de la circulation routière" en France http://data.gouv.fr/fr/dataset/… cf http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/… (données utilisées dans http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00725090  avec @3wen)MT @SH_lelabo "l'ANR ou comment dépenser 35 millions d'€ pour en distribuer 250" by @HuetSylvestre http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr…Did I miss something, somewhere?