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Once again, interesting posts and articles, here and there,[RIP] doctorow's obit for Aaron Swartz: http://boingboing.net/..."what color do you want your database ?" http://dilbert.com/…University "Reputation [based on research] is more important than teaching quality or price of courses" http://guardian.co.uk/ … "Josh Angrist’s meticulous ­methods have influenced scholars for two decades" http://www.technologyreview.com/… nice portrait in MIT News via TimHarford"Exploratory analysis of actuarial pricing data using R" on Chibisi's blog http://sites.google.com/site/activeanalyticsgbbo00/...  (new blog on R and insurance)"Where are university websites hiding all their research?" http://www.guardian.co.uk... via GdnHigherEd[free ebook] "Breaking the Law of Averages: Real-Life Probability and Statistics" http://wmbriggs.com/… by mattstat"2012 was the hottest U.S. year on record" http://washingtonpost.com/…"One of the sources of risk in big banks that does not get the attention it deserves is information systems" http://nakedcapitalism.com/… via rszbt"maps and colors" http://freac.fsu.edu/…"Understanding risk aversion in financial markets" http://newyorkfed.org/… via http://econbrowser.com/…"Science should be on the journalism curriculum"http://guardian.co.uk/… via guardianscience and SciencePunk"The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck" http://motherjones.com/… by chriscmooney"Why do people think economists are charlatans?" on Noahpinion's blog http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/..."Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?" http://theatlantic.com/ … see also http://slate.com/…"Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars" http://guardian.co.uk/... via TimHarford"2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S." http://nytimes.com/… via nytimesscienceBig data, "Crunching the numbers" http://economist.com/21554743 "Banks know a lot about their customers..."[free ebook] "Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman http://stanford.edu/~hastie/… (see also http://-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/… )Geeks and politics http://geekpolitics.be/  via NicolasLoubet"dumb financial journalism, dumb corporate management, dumb financial regulation..." http://ftalphaville.ft.com/…"Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers" http://imf.org/… with "strong errors, both statistically and economically""Health Care Spending by Age and Country" http://theincidentaleconomist.com/…"Planetary disasters: It could happen one night" http://nature.com/… on time uncertainty of future catastrophes[free ebook] "S Poetry" by Patrick J. Burns (for S and R users) http://burns-stat.com/…"The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth" http://adweek.com/…We are "181,000 Social Media 'Gurus,' 'Ninjas,' 'Masters,' and 'Mavens' on Twitter" http://adage.com/… via data_nerd"The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World" http://flavorwire.com/…"Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics" http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/… via http://marginalrevolution.com/…Long-Term Growth in Students' Mathematics Achievement: The Unique Contributions of Motivation and Cognitive Strategies" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…“What journalists can learn from scientists and the scientific method” http://poynter.org/latest-news/… by mthomps via timoreilly"Data scientists matter because data science is the future of IT"http://gigaom.com/ … via data_nerd and msgbi"The End of Economists' Imperialism" http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/…via mims"Banks win more flexible Basel rules" http://ft.com/cms/… via LeMondeEcoEntMarkus Gesmann's post on "Bridget Riley exhibition in London" http://lamages.blogspot.ca/… see also http://r-de-jeu.blogspot.ca/…"English Letter Frequency Counts" http://norvig.com/mayzner"Measures of Segregation" http://insidehighered.com/ …"A fatal gap between science and policy?" http://scidev.net/… see also http://lwec.org.uk/sites/…"The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future" http://web.mit.edu/…"Science, politics, mathematics and finance" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/… following http://newstatesman.com/…"What your statistical software says about you" http://seanjtaylor.com/… via younesb91«Evidence of declining literacy among Canadian university graduates» http://heqco.ca/en-CA/blog/… via IanikMarcil from http://.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/…"The wonderful thing about forecasts is that they all sound very profound" http://timharford.com/ … on timharford's blog"What’s the use of economics?" http://voxeu.org/…January 1st? http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/… "the deadliest day for pedestrians" via http://.washingtonpost.com/…"On Chomsky and the two cultures of Statistical Learning"http://norvig.com/...  via albertocairo and jgibajaAdvice for potential academic bloggers" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.ca/…"Statistics in a world where nothing is random" http://andrewgelman.com/… on StatModeling's blog"Academic new-year resolutions: email" http://jpehs.co.uk/… via eeleach and danielcolquitt a[photography] "Convergence. Philadelphia, PA. 2011." via http://photographersdirectory.tumblr.com/…Et comme toutes les semaines, quelques billets et articles en francais,"Trafic entrant par station de métro, à Paris" http://labs.data-publica.com/ratp/  sur l'excellent blog de datapublica"Sauvetages bancaires : pourquoi est-ce toujours le citoyen qui boit la tasse ?" http://latribune.fr/opinions/…"Lecture: j’entend Silver, le renard et le hérisson" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/… sur l'extraordinaire blog de tomroudtrès belle syntheseRapport sur l'avenir du journalisme "Le nouvel écosystème de l'information" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/… via SciencePresse"Coût des publications : un exemple instructif" sur l'excellent blog http://djalil.chafai.net/…