Some posts and articles worth reading (now obtained almost automatically from my tweets)
- Roundup and ‘Gluten Intolerance’ http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/~/media/2C6428C5A5254BAFB484C6E43E4ADCF9.ashx correlation or causality?
- “Measuring Inequality” http://darp.lse.ac.uk/papersdb/Cowell_measuringinequality3.pdf by Frank A. Cowell
- “How statisticians changed the war [WWII], and the war changed statistics” http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636589-how-statisticians-changed-war-and-war-changed-statistics-they-also-served
- “Life Expectancy improved in every country of the world” http://maxroser.com/everyone-is-better-off-life-expectancy-increased/ on @ MaxCRoser’s blog (nice viz’, even if I believe that the title is maybe not appropriate)
- “Gigabyte gourmet: AI robot learns to cook just by watching YouTube videos” http://rt.com/news/219687-robot-learns-watching-video/ ht @ aussietorres
- “The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar” http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/12/the-world-almost-had-a-13-month-calendar/383610/
- “Traffic Accidents Are More Likely When It Rains” http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2r0e7b/los_angeles_traffic_accident_rate_in_rainy_vs_dry/ ht @ Jishai
- “Flight Reliability When Flying From New York To Chicago” http://flightsphere.com/flight-reliability/from/new-york/to/chicago
- “How good are out-of-sample forecasting tests?” http://www.voxeu.org/article/how-good-are-out-sample-forecasting-tests
- “Entrepreneurship, down-side risks, and social insurance” http://equitablegrowth.org/news/entrepreneurship-side-risks-social-insurance/ by @ nick_bunker ht @ dthesmar
- “Is Life Better in America’s Red States?” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html?smid=tw-share by @ richard_florida
- “What Stock Photos Of Victims Are Telling Us About Rape Culture” http://www.xojane.com/issues/rape-victim-stock-photos by @ xojanedotcom ht @ xporte
- “How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors ” http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/03/how-to-get-published-in-an-academic-journal-top-tips-from-editors
- “Even when we have good intentions, we discriminate in ways big and small, as many studies have shown” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-sticks-of-racial-bias-.html
- How TCP/IP eclipsed Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for networking http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt ht @ _pierre
- Jan, 4th #assa2015 “7th Annual Economics Humor Session” https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/preliminary.php?search_string=beggs&search_type=last_name&search=Search via http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/2015/01/01/economic-humor-2015-edition/
- via @ angry_prof
– I asked Santa for a Research Grant
– You still believe in Research Grants?
- “Happy New Tropical (or Anomalistic or Sidereal) Earth Orbital Time Period!” http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/new_year_2014_how_astronomers_define_the_year.html (actually, that was published last year)
- “The economics of stuff” http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/01/the-economics-of-stuff.html by @ franceswoolley
- Forthcoming https://www.schneier.com/book-dg.html “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” by @ schneierblog
- “The Scoring of America” http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WPF_Scoring_of_America_April2014_fs.pdf
- “Quadratic Voting” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531 and http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/ , ht @ tylercowen
- RT @ _Otiego “The rich now have less leisure than the poor. What makes them stay in the office?” http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out
- “Stupid People Have No Idea How Stupid They Are” (a.k.a. the Dunning-Kruger Effect) http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/john-cleese-on-stupidity-and-a-cornell-study.html https://youtu.be/wvVPdyYeaQU
- “On the Measurement of Economic Tail Risk” https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=288
- “Environmental Protection, Rare Disasters, and Discount Rates” https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=200
- “20 Years in the Professor Game: things I did right and things I did wrong” http://lymanmuseum.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/20-years-in-the-professor-game-things-i-did-right-and-things-i-did-wrong/ by @ ta_wheeler
- “You May Believe You Are a Bayesian But You Are Probably Wrong” http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/Article_Senn.pdf by @ stephensenn
- “An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values” http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/140216 by @ david_colquhoun
- “Statisticians: When We Teach, We Don’t Practice What We Preach ” http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ChanceEthics2.pdf
- “Why continue to teach and use hypothesis testing?” http://andrewgelman.com/2015/01/03/continue-teach-use-hypothesis-testing/
- via @ TheAtlantic “A study of studies shows why we tend to date people a lot like ourselves” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/youre-just-like-me/383502/
- in the U.S. “some states have more people living in prison than living on a college campus” http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2r5ej9/ocx/
- “The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint” http://users.ha.uth.gr/tgd/pt0501/09/Tufte.pdf by @ EdwardTufte ht @ visionscarto
- would @ BarackObama be cool even if @ PetesSuza was not the official WH photographer? http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/2014-photos (ht @ sayseal @ CBarsacq )
- 2015, “this could be the year of extinction for the climate-change denier” (hopefully) http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/heat-is-on-abbott-government-over-climate-change-as-world-turns-20150102-12ghrj.html
- “The French Obsession With National Suicide” http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/french-obsession-national-suicide ht @ Denis_Gouaux
- MT @ pash22 “Cancer risks: Seven statistics that counter ‘bad luck’ claims over who gets disease” http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/cancer-risks-seven-statistics-that-counter-bad-luck-claims-over-who-gets-disease-9954655.html
- “Do Economic Sanctions Work?” http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/do-economic-sanctions-work-by-kenneth-rogoff-2015-1 ht @ adelaigue
- “What We Know About Inequality (in 14 Charts)” http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/01/01/what-we-know-about-inequality-in-14-charts/?mod=e2tw
- the true size of Antarctica http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/581238main_USA_Antarctica_size-orig_full.jpg
- How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? http://what-if.xkcd.com/123/
- “Point-and-Shoot Memories: The Influence of Taking Photos on Memory for a Museum Tour” http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/2/396
- Every day, between two and three thousand aircraft fly across the North Atlantic between Canada, the US and Europe http://vimeo.com/98941796
- “The simple math that explains why you may (or may not) get cancer” http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/01/simple-math-explains-why-you-may-or-may-not-get-cancer
- “Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates ” http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/jan/02/bad-luck-bad-journalism-and-cancer-rates by @ BobOHara and @ GrrlScientist
- “Bad Luck of Random Mutations Plays Predominant Role in Cancer, Study Shows” http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78.abstract via http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/bad_luck_of_random_mutations_play
- “In praise of complexity economics” http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/12/in-praise-of-complexity-economics.html
- “How financially literate are women? An overview and new insights” http://www.nber.org/papers/w20793
- “How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions ” http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-fast-youll-abandon-your-new-years-resolutions/ by @ monachalabi
- “Your Father’s Mathematics Teaching No Longer Works ” http://devlinsangle.blogspot.fr/2015/01/your-fathers-mathematics-teaching-no.html by @ profkeithdevlin
- “The Google Trends of Popular New Year’s Resolutions” http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/106744181206/2015-is-just-a-day-away-a-lot-of-folks-make
- “Today Is The Most Hungover Day Of The Year” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/youre-gonna-get-soooo-wasted-tonight-and-google-knows-it/ h
- “What Is the Point of Academic Books?” http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/point-academic-books-publishing-writing-literature-96610/ ht @ cblatts
- “Why doctors ignore suffering” http://qz.com/318309/why-doctors-ignore-suffering/
- “A comparison of algorithms for the multivariate L¹ median” http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/CS/CS-2010-4complete.pdf via @ deagiles’s http://davegiles.blogspot.fr/2014/12/the-multivariate-median.html
- “Why an orthodox economic model may not be the best guide for policy” https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2004/09/pdf/straight.pdf ht @ BrianCAlbrecht
- “The charitable world has become obsessed with ‘metrics'” http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/the-wall-street-takeover-of-charity (via @ lginiger) , just like everyone…
- “Revues, science citation Index, impact factor, open access : petite histoire…” http://blog.educpros.fr/christophe-perales/2014/12/05/revues-science-citation-index-impact-factor-open-access-petite-histoire-de-list-a-lusage-de-toutes-les-generations/ ht @ CdesID
- Seen in X-Files and 24 “Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflection” http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325
- via @ miller_stephen : US an interesting outlier http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/30/having-a-typical-day-in-2014-youre-not-alone/
- “You’re more likely to die on your birthday” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/29/youre-more-likely-to-die-on-your-birthday/ http://www.annalsofepidemiology.org/article/S1047-2797%2812%2900110-X/abstract ht @ MaxCRoser see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2404
- true story
- “An NSA Big Graph experiment” http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013_56002v1.pdf
- “Graphical Models” http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ss/1089808279
- 2014 souvenirs, http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/living/gallery/2014-selfies-of-the-year/index.html “look at me”
- RIP “Ulrich Beck has died” http://www.dw.de/renowned-sociologist-ulrich-beck-has-died/a-18168851
- Arno Rafael Minkkinen https://vimeo.com/115264060 “Art Is Risk Made Visible”
- “Language networks: When bigger isn’t better” http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/12/johnson-language-networks
- see?
- “2014 Kinda Sucked: A Look at Our Slow Descent Into Dystopia” http://www.wired.com/2014/12/2014-year-in-dystopia/
- “Statistically Speaking, What Does the Average Startup Look Like?” http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/statistically-speaking-what-does-the-average-startup-look-like/384019 ht @ DEAGiles
- “The Year in Review: Even More Fantastical Pseudo Economics” http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2014/12/the-year-in-review-even-more-fantastical-pseudo-economics
- “HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/02/harpercollins-omits-israel-from-maps-for-mideast-schools-citing-local-preferences/ (see also http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israel-wiped-off-the-map-in-Middle-East-atlases-386265 )
- “When does America drop dictators?” http://ejt.sagepub.com/content/20/4/1072.full.pdf+html
- Belgium is hotter than ever! http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/vis/warm2014/warm2014.html
et un peu de lecture en français
- “De la surveillance de masse à la paranoïa généralisée” http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/01/03/de-la-surveillance-de-masse-a-la-paranoia-generalisee/ par @ manhack , passionant !
- via
@Sciences_Avenir Le cancer serait dû à un manque de chance, vraiment ? Décryptage http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/20150102.OBS9168/decryptage-le-cancer-serait-du-a-un-manque-de-chance-vraiment.html … - “Universités: guerre ouverte chez les profs d’économie” http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/universites-guerre-ouverte-chez-les-profs-d-economie-10392/ ht @ omalbanate c’est décidément un “spectacle lamentable” (par @ anne__lavigne )
- [free ebook] “Statistique Exploratoire Multidimensionnelle” http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers11-10/010007837.pdf
- [free ebook]”Pour une révolution fiscale” http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/Pour_une_revolution_fiscale.pdf
- “Le bénéficiaire de la légion d’honneur n’est pas celui qui la reçoit mais celui qui la remet” http://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/01/04/actualite/le-beneficiaire-de-la-legion-dhonneur-est-pas-celui-qui-la-recoit-mais-celui-qui-la-remet-11543724/ ht @ Mathieu2jean
- “Les réseaux sociaux ont confisqué la métaphore du blog” http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/12/01/les-reseaux-sociaux-ont-confisque-la-metaphore-du-blog/ et (re)lire aussi http://www.peripheries.net/article333.html de @ monachollet
- via @ A_Moatti Pour amateurs de numérologie, ce long commentaire à mon billet “De quoi 2015 est-il le nombre ?” http://moatti.blogs.sciencesetavenir.fr/archive/2015/01/01/de-quoi-2015-est-il-le-nombre-23154.html
- via @ arretsurimages “Mobilier anti-SDF : comment des artistes mènent la fronde” http://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/2015-01-01/Mobilier-anti-SDF-comment-des-artistes-menent-la-fronde-id7340 (voir aussi http://www.survivalgroup.org/anti-site.html )
- quand la France sait être visionnaire, MT @ ordrespontane *Les autoroutes de l’information* http://www.emnps.net/pdf/1994/thery/chapitreI.html
- “Les empreintes de nos navigateurs nous identifient — et si on brouillait les pistes ?” http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2014/12/22/si-on-brouillait-les-pistes-avec-amiunique
- “La jeunesse d’aujourd’hui est une «génération perdue» qui ne sait rien bricoler” http://www.slate.fr/story/96273/jeunesse-generation-perdue-rien-reparer (voir aussi http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/4733 )
- “Pourquoi les pauvres votent-ils contre leurs intérêts ?” http://www.scienceshumaines.com/pourquoi-les-pauvres-votent-ils-contre-leurs-interets_fr_28625.html#.VKcpuIhgv5c.twitter via @ valatini et @ paquin_stephane
- les métropoles françaises http://www.lesechos.fr/journal20141231/lec1_france/0204029824879-onze-grandes-villes-accedent-au-rang-de-metropole-1079215.php#xtor=CS1-26 ht @ pierreageron
- via @ OCDE_fr jamais en 30 ans le fossé entre riches et pauvres n’a été aussi prononcé http://bit.ly/12lIZW4
- lendemain de fête
- RT @ Uneheuredepeine “Refuser l’hébergement d’urgence : la rationalité de la rue” http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/12/30/les-sdf-en-allant-en-centre-d-accueil-ont-peur-de-perdre-leur-place-dans-la-rue_1172022
- Piketty et Villa ont la Légion d’Honneur http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/01/01/modiano-piketty-et-mimie-mathy-dans-la-promotion-de-la-legion-d-honneur_4548255_3246.html ht @ TotoroInParis mais Piketty la refuse http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/01/01/l-economiste-thomas-piketty-refuse-la-legion-d-honneur_4548309_3246.html ht @ xmolenat
- “Trois leçons sur l’évaluation” http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/2014/12/11/trois-lecons-sur-levaluation/ par @ nb58
- “Comprendre l’étrange découpage des fuseaux horaires” http://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/2014/12/31/comprendre-l-etrange-decoupage-des-fuseaux-horaires-en-5-minutes_4546495_1669088.html http://dai.ly/x2dfcoh
- “La photo est devenue un acte quasi terroriste. Le métro parisien est un cas d’école.” http://www.politis.fr/Photo-les-libertes-mises-a-mal-par,29511.html http://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/551374679961640960/photo/1
Did I miss somehting interesting?