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Some writings worth reading,  here and there"Reporters don’t need to know how to program. But there are lots of things reporters don’t need to know how to do..." http://niemanlab.org/2013/…"The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? by Jed S. Rakoff" http://nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jan/… via @Ian_FraserSome thoughts about statistics, "Reflections after refereeing papers for NIPS" http://books.google.ca/books … Leo Breiman in 1995"What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/… by @jaykreps"So we work harder in Canada, eh?" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2… (following http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/20… see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/10924 … )[free ebook] " An Introduction to Random Matrices" http://wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~zeitouni/… by G. Anderson, A. Guionnet &#38; O. Zeitouni"Claustrophobia" (via http://bizarrocomics.com/2013/12/14/ …)"Female Scientists Receive Less Funding Than Their Male Counterparts. You Don’t Say?" http://themarysue.com/female… by @TheMarySue"In economics, climate science and public health, computer models help us…" http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/should…"Here’s a simple recipe for doing science. Find a plausible theory for how some bits of the world behave, make predictions, test them experimentally. If the results fit the predictions, then the theory might describe what’s really going on. If not, you need to think again. Scientific work is vastly diverse and full of fascinating complexities. Still, the recipe captures crucial features of how most of it has been done for the past few hundred years. Now, however, there is a new ingredient. Computer simulation, only a few decades old, is transforming scientific projects as mind-bending as plotting the evolution of the cosmos, and as mundane as predicting traffic snarl-ups. What should we make of this scientific nouvelle cuisine? While it is related to experiment, all the action is in silico — not in the world, or even the lab. It might involve theory, transformed into equations, then computer code. Or it might just incorporate some rough approximations, which are good enough to get by with. Made digestible, the results affect us all. As computer modelling has become essential to more and more areas of science, it has also become at least a partial guide to headline-grabbing policy issues, from flood control and the conserving of fish stocks, to climate change and — heaven help us — the economy. But do politicians and officials understand the limits of what these models can do? Are they all as good, or as bad, as each other? If not, how can we tell which is which?" [to be continued...][free ebook] "Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Numerical Analysis" http://kevinsheppard.com/…"Annals of over-interpretation" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9111 "Public Transport Use in North America" (via https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/212/ )On the "impact of child ranks in primary school on their later confidence and exam results" http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/… via @tylercowen"Bayesian tests" http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/ …"With its best students far behind their foreign peers, America needs new ideas to nurture their talent"http://nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/… via @sagebiel and "Is It Too Late To Reinvent Our Universities?" http://forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/… via @davidenkoff"The modern economy depends on dozens of obscure metals. What happens if we run out?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… via @TimHarford"Health spending, more efficient for men than women" http://mcgill.ca/channels/news/health…[wtf viz] can someone care - at least - about proportions? (via http://wtfviz.net/post/70018757218/can-website-backup-help-with-proportions …)et un peu de lecture en français"Article refusé !" http://sauvonsluniversite.com/spip.php?1669 … par @sluniversiteEn France "à quel âge devient-on vieux ?", http://monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/06…Did I miss something?(some interesting thoughts for christmas holidays)