Some writings worth reading, here and there
- “An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data” by Jonathan Schwabish http://dlvr.it/4sL4cq ht @TimHarford
- “There’s a Rational Explanation for Human Sacrifice” http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/t … an economic perspective of an old interesting practice, the academic version being http://peterleeson.com/Human… “Human Sacrifice” bt Peter T. Leeson
- “Dear America, I Saw You Naked” http://politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa… “And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent.”
- every roads in Canada… http://i.imgur.com/FoDx6Ws.jpg see
- “Journalists as Jedis” http://dizzynomics.wordpress.com/2014…
- “British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows” http://independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public…
- “Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years” http://nature.com/news/scientists-rea… via @noahWG
- “Does sexual activity change with age?” http://lamages.blogspot.com/2014/02/… based on http://heguardian.com/news/reality-check/…
- worth reading http://tosdr.org/ ““I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web”
- “A central banker’s ‘license to lie’” http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/…
- “Sad Denver Fans Cranked Up Porn After Super Bowl Defeat” http://gawker.com/sad-denver-fans-cranked-up … see
- (with some delay) “An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model” http://wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-07/ … (till 2009)
- [CAS with R] “Computational Actuarial Science with R” http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/caswithr/ … by @robjhyndman (more about the book soon)
- “Long-term global warming trend sustained in 2013” http://climate.nasa.gov/news/1029 see https://youtu.be/gaJJtS_WDmI
- “Scientific Pride and Prejudice” http://nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/scientific… “A major root of the crisis is selective use of data….”
- “Why Supporting a Team isn’t Like Choosing a Washing Machine” http://davidpapineau.co.uk/1/post/…
- “Map of the Sahara Desert, after Lewis Carroll” http://radicalcartography.net/sahara … see
- “The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age” http://shirky.com/weblog/2014/01…
- “Boston Campus” http://radicalcartography.net/?boston_campus “land owned or leased by the fifty-one colleges and universities” in Boston
- “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics” http://ftp.voteview.com/The_Nature_of_Belief … via http://adamsmith.org/blog/… ht @bswud
- 1869: Paris electoral map by Leon Montigny “application de la géométrie à la statistique” http://.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/… see
avec un peu de lecture en français.
- retour sur les publications académiques d’@gunthert beaucoup de (bonnes) lectures en perspective ! http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/2937
- “Les gens ne lisent plus…” (HT @OopsLand)
- “La France, première destination touristique au monde” http://leparisien.fr/societe/la-france… ah non, pardon http://albalala.tumblr.com/post/… (je m’étais trompé)
- MT @YLYKAS “France2 et les mathématiques…” ht @SkyZeLimit
avec la version vidéo en cadeau bonus, “pas besoin d’avoir fait Polytechnique” (pour rater un calcul simple) https://youtube.com/v=bkVoOJZySWM … HT @Ragoudvo #priceless
Did I miss something?