Some writings worth reading, discovered here and there
- “FiveThirtyEight and Vox have overpromised and underdelivered, and they need to treat data with more scientific rigor” http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/07/alberto-cairo-data-journalism-needs-to-up-its-own-standards …
- “‘A’ The Hard Way, 2010: Grade Inflation’s Sweet Sixteen of Tough Graders” http://www.gradeinflation.com/sweet162010.html … ht
@askessler
and “An ‘A’ is not what it used to be” http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21615616-not-what-it-used-be-grade-expectations …
- “Publication Bias in Psychology: A Diagnosis Based on the Correlation between Effect Size and Sample Size” http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105825 …
- (U.S.) “Science Suffering From Booms And Busts In Funding” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/09/340716091/u-s-science-suffering-from-booms-and-busts-in-funding … by
@RobertBenincasa and@rrichardh - “2014 Fall Foliage Map” (in the U.S.) http://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/ … Nice! e.g. mid October
- “Taking measurement’s measure” http://www.roughtype.com/?p=4970 by
@roughtype - “The Internet of Things: Making sense of the next mega-trend” http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/outlook/internet-of-things/iot-report.pdf … ht
@morvan - “The Legacy of Big Data” http://blogs.wsj.com … by
@RandyBeanNVP - “Street Art on the Separation Wall” http://street-art-separation-wall.tumblr.com/ poke
@Geopolitics2020 - “More bang for your buck” http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck … ~ Fat Prostitutes Makes Less Money
- Interpreting Regression Coefficients http://andrewgelman.com/2013/01/05/understanding-regression-models-and-regression-coefficients/ … (for those who missed it)
- “European Jews Are All 30th Cousins” http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140909/ncomms5835/full/ncomms5835.html … (brief summary) ht http://www.livescience.com/47755-european-jews-are-30th-cousins.html …
- “GIS without GIS Servers” http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/09/08/gis-without-gis-servers/ … by
@cageyjames - “The economics of reclining your airplane seat aren’t so simple” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/08/the-economics-of-reclining-your-airplane-seat-arent-so-simple …
- “Ebola map shows people in more African regions risk infection from animals” http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-map-shows-people-more-african-regions-risk-115859338.html …
- “Have Economists Been Captured by Business Interests?” http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/have-economists-been-captured-by-business-interests …
- “I disagree with Alan Turing and Daniel Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence” http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/03/disagree-alan-turing-daniel-kahneman-regarding-strength-statistical-evidence/ …
- “Long Week-End” = two days off (cartoon by
@fowlcomics)
- “Can’t Place That Smell? You Must Be American” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/opinion/sunday/how-culture-shapes-our-senses.html?_r=0 … “How Culture Shapes Our Senses” by
@tanyaluhrmann - J.W. worked in Auschwitz http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/spiegel-interview-with-a-91-year-old-former-auschwitz-guard-a-988127.html … “he described what it was like to be a cog in the Nazis’ horrific machinery of death”
- “Three of the Most Publicly Controversial Scientific Topics” (via http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2fj2c4/oc_three_of_the_most_publicly_controversial/ …)
- “Computational Theology” http://www.wired.com/2014/09/computational-theology/ … by
@arbesman - I knew it! http://www.mnn.com/food/beverages/stories/study-abstaining-from-alcohol-significantly-shortens-life#ixzz3Ceq6LIj2 … “A New Study Suggests That People Who Don’t Drink Alcohol Are More Likely To Die Young” ht
@Alex_Blanchet - “21 Years Of Evasive Answers From The White House” http://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/21-years-white-house-not-giving-straight-answers#4asb5t4 …
- “Why Do Americans Love to Blame Teachers?” http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/the-war-on-teachers/379403/ … by
@hoodedu - “Matrix Methods and Applications” http://stanford.edu/class/ee103/mma.pdf … ht
@timtriche - how humans and computers were interacting in the cockpit, and how it could be improved to minimize error and risk” http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/hazards-automation …
- “What’s the Worst Hurricane Anyone in Your Town Remembers” http://xkcd.com/1407/
- “As school starts up, some kids aren’t happy about the empty vending machines and lack of nacho cheese” http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/healthy-school-lunch/#!bPLArB …
- story of my life
und einige Lesen in Deutsch, außergewöhnlich,
- “Überflüssige Debatte um Finanztransaktionssteuer” http://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/boerse/nach-gutachten-von-copenhagen-economics-ueberfluessige-debatte-um-finanztransaktionssteuer/10669074.html … (“… rund 18 Milliarden Euro bringen könnte”)
et enfin, un peu de lecture en français,
- “Le Freak Show aux États-Unis” http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Du-spectacle-il-y-en-aura.html … par
@Elise_Lantz, sur http://www.alma-editeur.fr/la_fabrique_des_monstres.html … - “Des médias sociaux devenus plus ‘médias’ que ‘sociaux'” http://www.mediassociaux.fr/2014/09/08/ce-fin-conversations-les-medias-sociaux/ …
- “À bas les réseaux sociaux” dans Libé (les traces d’intelligence se font rares dans certaines tribunes)
- dans
@lesinrocks “Castoriadis, un grand philosophe oublié” http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/09/04/livres/cornelius-castoriadis-grand-philosophe-oublie-11522587/ … - voulez vous annuler les annulations ?
- “Une géographie des services publics aériens en Europe” https://www.cairn.info/revue-espace-geographique-2007-4-page-320.htm … ht
@visionscarto
- “Le mois de naissance des élèves pèse sur la réussite scolaire” http://webetab.ac-bordeaux.fr/Primaire/pau1/mutualisation/Ferrier2.pdf … (Le Monde, en 2003) et “Le mois de naissance influence t-il les trajectoires scolaires” http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.com/grenet-julien/WP/Grenet_2008.pdf … (en 2008) cc
@Uneheuredepeine
- etudesalacon.tumblr.com/ entre les poissons ivres http://www.20minutes.fr/article/1377305/ynews1377305?xtor=RSS-176 … et les souris sous morphine http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/a/actu-les-souris-preferent-renoir-31582.php … mon cœur balance !
- “Découverte d’un navire de l’expédition Franklin” http://www.lapresse.ca/sciences/decouvertes/201409/08/01-4798334-decouverte-dun-navire-de-lexpedition-franklin.php … (disparu dans le Grand Nord canadien en 1846)
- “La France populaire décroche, qui s’en soucie ?” http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?page=analyse&id_article=1930 …
- “Nouveaux usages, nouveaux défis pour l’assurance” http://www.lesechos.fr/journal20140909/lec2_finance_et_marches/0203756779381… (voir aussi l’exemple de la MAIF http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/0203757625454.…)
- in
@lesinrocks “les livres sont utiles aux politiques et ils devraient passer plus de temps à en lire” ht@PhMarliere
- sciences et média, http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201409/07/01-4797946-les-relationnistes-medias-agites-apres-un-reportage-sur-les-algues.php … ht
@mart1oeil - ivre,
@joelgombin fait des cartes sur le vote FN ! http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2014/09/09/comment-le-fn-elargit-sa-base-electorale_1095996 …
Did I miss something interesting?