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Autumn is almost behind us...(and yes, it's a leaf) Some posts and articles worth readingpublish or perish, literally http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-london-to-review-procedures-after-death-of-academic/2017188.article … "Imperial College London to ‘review procedures’ after death of academic""Experimental and Field Evidence that Morality and a Sense of Humor are Psychologically Incompatible" https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/ob_10_14_Yam.pdf …"Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight" http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532776/linguistic-mapping-reveals-how-word-meanings-sometimes-change-overnight/ … ht @visionscarto"Social media fingerprints of unemployment" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.3140v2.pdf …"The Hunger Games Economy" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/29/the-hunger-games-economy.html …"All the Medalists: Men’s 100-Meter Sprint" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/05/sports/olympics/the-100-meter-dash-one-race-every-medalist-ever.html …"Twitter Users Are More Likely to Follow Others With The Same First Name But Nobody Knows Why" http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532846/the-same-name-puzzle-twitter-users-are-more-likely-to-follow-others-with-the-same-first/ …"The One Where I Counted the Jokes in Popular Sitcoms" http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/jokes-per-minute-sitcom-ratings-link/382734/?single_page=true … ("an unscientific survey")"NBA Player Return on Investment" http://www.nikhil-nathwani.com/roi/roi.html "Some thoughts on Journal Impact Factor" http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2014-on-impact-factors.html …"The price of failure" http://www.economist.com/news/business/21635005-startling-new-cost-estimate-new-medicines-met-scepticism-price-failure … "A startling new cost estimate for new medicines is met with scepticism""World Population Will Soar Higher Than Predicted " http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-population-will-soar-higher-than-predicted/ … ht @egschmitt"Rising Sea Levels Show Strange Patterns" http://www.wired.com/2014/11/science-graphic-week-strange-patterns-emerge-rising-sea-levels/ …The two X's are are exactly the same but backgrounds make them look like very different colors http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/10/361219912/if-the-same-shade-looks-both-yellow-and-gray-whats-color …interview with @SusanEMcG, http://binaire.blog.lemonde.fr/susan-mcgregor-journaliste-et-informaticienne/ … on journalism and computational science"If applied econometrics were easy theorists would do it" (Angrist and Pischke) http://econometricsense.blogspot.ru/2014/11/applied-econometrics.html …"Why you feel so lousy after a huge holiday meal" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/holiday-eating/ …"Why I don’t like hackathons, by Alex Bayley aged 39 1/2" http://infotrope.net/2014/11/28/why-i-dont-like-hackathons-by-alex-bayley-aged-39-12/ …"How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?" http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.28.4.77 …"Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0073791 …"Who Wants to Get to the Top?" http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/Class.pdf … "we investigate class-based differences in the propensity to seek positions of power""Economics That Really Matters" http://www.econthatmatters.com/  Cornell blog on development economics"Age Upon Ascension and Death for Roman Emperors from 27BC - 480AD Along with Causes of Death" http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2nihja/oc_age_upon_ascension_and_death_for_roman/ …"CCTV, Live and Videotapes: How Presentation Mode Affects the Evaluation of Witnesses" https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/9905/1/Landstrom_dissertation.pdf …"Migration of Honey Buzzards" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_honey_buzzard …) amazing video"inequality in the skies" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/inequality-in-the-skies/ … Gini indices in Airplanes"Accumulated Annual Precipitation in California, 1895 - 2014" http://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/groundwater/charts/precipitation/index.html …"The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world." http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german …"European moves against Google are about protecting companies, not consumers" http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21635000-european-moves-against-google-are-about-protecting-companies-not-consumers-should-digital …"This Is What the Sound of WWI’s Ceasefire ‘Looked’ Like" http://LIFE.com  http://life.time.com/history/world-war-i-ceasefire-november-11-1918-graphic/#ixzz3KBsuDikk …"It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ferguson-michael-brown-indictment-darren-wilson/ … by @bencasselman"Richard Scarry's Busy Town in the 21st Century" http://boingboing.net/2014/11/26/tom-the-dancing-bug-richard-s.html …"What Happened in Ferguson?" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police-shooting.html …"Facebook’s AI team hires Vladimir Vapnik" http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/25/facebooks-ai-team-hires-vladimir-vapnik-father-of-the-popular-support-vector-machine-algorithm/ …everything about testing and decision theory, in one chart, via @john4manMT @petermurrayrust "My slides for #opencon2014 "Embrace the Open Revolution" https://www.slideshare.net/petermurrayrust/embrace-the-open-revolution … e.g."NBA player-season clustering" https://nicholas-neuteufel.shinyapps.io/NBAPlayerSeasonClustering/ …"Adult Obesity: Percent of US adults that report a BMI &#62;= 30" http://maps.ramiro.org/map/usa/adult-obesity/ …"Many academics aren't as interested in closing the gap between academia and the "real world"" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/11/economists-vs-politicians.html … economics and politics (and, as mentioned by @mluebbecke it is also true that some "real world"ers are afraid of closing this gap)via @Ewjoachim @ramez "Is truncating the y-axis dishonest?"et un peu de lecture en français,"Le système financier est comme une centrale nucléaire mal contrôlée", JM Naulot, ancien membre du collège de l’AMF http://www.bastamag.net/Les-gouvernements-ont-tres-peur …"La technique est-elle responsable de l’accélération du monde ?" http://www.internetactu.net/2013/03/19/la-technique-est-elle-responsable-de-lacceleration-du-monde/ … (lecture du dimanche...)"Les clés de la déconnexion" http://imagesociale.fr/749  par @gunthert (voir aussi http://imagesociale.fr/542 , que j'avais raté à sa publication)"La politique, un divertissement médiatique comme un autre ?" http://www.acrimed.org/article4511.html …"Christiane Taubira, vous déplorez les morts américains en fermant les yeux lorsque ceux qui tombent sont vos concitoyens" http://www.saphirnews.com/De-Ferguson-a-Paris-Christiane-Taubira-une-indignation-a-geographie-variable_a20031.html …"Théorie statistique de l’apprentissage" http://www.math.ens.fr/~catoni/homepage/learning.pdf …"Au service de quelle banque sommes-nous ?" http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/gadrey/files/banques-sud.pdf … découvert via http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/gadrey/2014/11/29/banques-dividendes-et-monnaies-complementaires/ …"Qui fixe la valeur d’une création ?" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/08/PATAUD_CELERIER/16183 … "L’art (contemporain) de bâtir des fortunes avec du vent""Graphiste, prof, avocat…les métiers déchiffrés (avec humour) en infographies" http://www.konbini.com/fr/inspiration-2/infographie-metiers/ …"Le monde en lecture seule. A propos de la disparition de l'écriture manuscrite" http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/2014/11/monde-lecture-seule.html … par @affordanceinfo"Beaucoup de hauts fonctionnaires doivent leur carrière à une «femme exceptionnelle»" http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/11/26/beaucoup-de-hauts-fonctionnaires-doivent-leur-carriere-a-une-femme-exceptionnelle_1151287 …"Réseaux sociaux contre réseaux sociaux ?" http://sms.hypotheses.org/3018  (oui, je (re)découvre le blog passionnant de @MondesSociaux ce matin)"« Pour réussir, il faut créer de l’addiction chez son client grâce à la donnée » pour François Bourdoncle" http://www.larevuedudigital.com/2014/11/actu/pour-reussir-il-faut-creer-de-laddiction-chez-son-client-grace-a-la-donnee-pour-francois-bourdoncle/ …"L'avantage économique apparent des métropoles : un problème de méthode de calcul ?" http://methode.hypotheses.org/164  par @oboubaDid I miss something interesting?