Still a lot of intresting posts and articles, here and there,
- “People overestimate the benefits of prevention” http://articles.chicagotribune.com/…health-preventionl3e8mg022-20121115_1_cancer-screenings-bowel-cancer-breast-canc/evia
@medskep - “Public preferences over efficiency, equity and autonomy in vaccination policy” http://www.researchgate.net/… via [in French] http://www.dhnet.be/i…
- “Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition” http://www.nytimes.com/… via
@msgbi - “The Wondrous Mathematics of Winter and Snow”http://www. newyorker.com/…via
@AlgebraFact - “How Do We Know Nash Equilibrium Has “Arrived”?” http://cheaptalk.org/-do-we-know-nash-equilibrium-has-arrived/ …
- “Vice Fund +21.11 % in 2012, Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund +13.27%” via http://www.lesechos.fr/cteurs/finance-marches/actu/0202470906127-bourse-le-vice-plus-remunerateur-que-la-vertu-en-2012-524095.php … forget about virtue, go for vice!
- “The Year in Review II: Yet More Fantastical Pseudo Economics”http://www. econbrowser.com/… via
@Noahpinion@MarkThoma - “Sexism in science (as elsewhere)”http://andrewgelman.com/-in-science-as-elsewhere/#.UOAL14f0yS4.twitter … via
@Blogizmo with – as usual – interesting comments - “Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?” http://reason.com/blog/… via
@pegobry - “The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest)”http:// theleisuresociety.tumblr.com/30/the-tech-debate-blasts-off-a-linkfest … “Towards a leisure society” via
@rszbt@TeraEuro@izakaminska - “Graphical Models and Inference” http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/ing/gm11/overview.htm … via
@chlalanne@ramhiser - “Media hype: Whose fault is it, journalists or scientists?”http:// ksj.mit.edu/… via
@BoraZ@deborahblum - “If data is available, should it always be published?” http://gigaom.com/spapers-and-guns-if-data-is-available-should-it-always-be-published …
- “European Commission Launches Open Data Portal In Public Beta”http:// thenextweb.com//european-commission-unwraps-public-beta-of-open-data-portal-ahead-of-january-2013-launch … via
@msgbi - Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity… video games at MoMA, http://www.wired.com11/moma-videogames/ … and http://www.guardian.co.uk/…
- “What is the social cost of gun ownership?”http:// home.uchicago.edu/s/JPubE_guns_2006FINAL.pdf … viahttp://marginalrevolution.com/tion/2012/12/what-is-the-social-cost-of-gun-ownership.html …
- “Six decades of economics publishing” (in QJE, AER and JPE) https://webspace.utexas.edu/ixDecadesofPublishing.pdf … via
@cblatts‘s blog http://chrisblattman.com/-decades-of-economics-publishing/ …
- ‘Christmas Sucks’ http://gawker.com/… spoiled kids on twitter, via
@tomroud - “No, Christmas Is Not an ‘Economically Efficient’ Holiday (And That’s Okay)” http://www.theatlantic.com/ve/2012/12/no-christmas-is-not-an-economically-efficient-holiday-and-thats-okay/266519/ …
- “The behavioral economics of Christmas”, by George Loewenstein and
@CassSunstein http://www.tnr.com/… via@sylvainCF@justinwolfer - “Catastrophic Risk Modeling and Recent Disasters” http://www.forbes.com/ewomen/2012/08/24/catastrophic-risk-modeling-and-recent-disasters-how-the-insurance-industry-rides-out-the-storms/?feed=rss_search … “How the Insurance Industry Rides Out the Storms”
- “Do my tweets really matter?” http://www.newstatesman.com/ech/2012/11/do-my-tweets-really-matter …“the pathologies of modern life”
- “Programming for all, part 1” http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/programming-for-all-part-1-an-introduction-to-writing-for-computers/ … “An introduction to writing for computers”
- “Are Annuities Too Risky for Insurance Companies?”http://www.advisorone.com/2012/12/18/are-annuities-too-risky-for-insurance-companies …
- “Climate science has become controversial for primarily non-scientific reasons.” http://www.newstatesman.com/ech/2012/12/brian-cox-and-robin-ince-politicians-must-not-elevate-mere-opinion-over-sc … “undermines confidence in science.”
- “Big Data could be huge this year” http://www.forbes.com/… “But people have to figure out how to use it” time to hire competent people too ?
- “In All Probability: Climate Change and the Risk of More Storms Like Sandy” http://www.theatlantic.com/hive/2012/11/in-all-probability-climate-change-and-the-risk-of-more-storms-like-sandy/265402/#.UKqpwZpIg1A.twitter …
- “Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Mining, Statistics, Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic, etc” http://wmbriggs.com/blog/… on
@mattstat‘s blog - “Occupy ACM: We are the 99%”http://windowsontheory.org/…acm-we-are-the-99/ via
@bodyspacesoc@danielequercia - “Data Science is NOT for everyone” http://analytical-solution.com/…
- “Let’s take the con out of randomization” http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/s-take-the-con-out-of-randomization-2/ … by Lars Pålsson Syll
- “most of the information is hidden in the correlation structure of the data” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ies.10315/abstract;jsessionid=839461EEE2C1F6908F67781399C141C5.d03t01 … see also Lewontin’s http://en.wikipedia.org/27s_Fallacy …
- “Ranking the popularity of programming languages” on http://www.drewconway.com/…
- “How can applied econometrics and analytics benefit your business?” (a post from June) http://econometricsense.blogspot.fr/n-applied-econometrics-and.html …
- “Put mindless econometrics and regression analysis where they belong – in the garbage can!” http://rwer.wordpress.com/…
- “six influential econometric textbooks in terms of causal concepts” http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r395.pdf … via http://chrisblattman.com/your-econometrics-textbook-wrong/ …
- “Methodological Mistakes and Econometric Consequences” http://www.era.org.tr/s…
- “traders are mostly educated in math or physics, often outside the United States, and their desks…” via http://www.nytimes.com/iness/new-technology-and-tougher-rules-shaking-up-fixed-income-trading.html … “…their desks are piled high with textbooks like the “R Graphs Cookbook” for working with obscure computer programming languages.”
- “The changing complexity of congressional speech” (in the U.S.)http:// sunlightfoundation.com/b1/congressional-speech/ … via http://srqm.tumblr.com
- nothing new, but always interesting “What does randomness look like?” http://www.empiricalzeal.com/t-does-randomness-look-like/ … via
@farnamstreet - /“Are you a data evangelist? http://www.federalnewsradio.com/030318 …
- “Analytics is not everything – my notes from the roundtable on Big Data in Motion.” http://www.kdnuggets.com/ata-in-motion.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kdnuggets-data-mining-analytics+%28KDnuggets%3A+Data+Mining+and+Analytics%29 … by
@kdnuggetsvia@klakhani - “Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970—2010” http://www.thelancet.com/t/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961719-X/abstract …
- “What Washington Think Tanks Like: Data”http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/t-washington-think-tanks-like-data/ … on
@PVGlance‘s blog - on arrogant Taleb, “I became successful because I knew what I learned in school about probability was bullshit”http:// chronicle.com/s-Not-a-Profile-of/136257/ …
avec comme souvent quelques billets intéressants, en Français,
- “La Cour des comptes épingle les écoles de commerce” http://www.lemonde.fr/e/2012/12/28/la-cour-des-comptes-epingle-les-ecoles-de-commerce_1811097_3224.html … hausse des frais de scolarité, profusion illisible de diplômes…
- “Comment « Le Plus » du Nouvel Observateur exploite ses collaborateurs” http://www.acrimed.org/… via
@DavidAbiker@antonin - le papier toilette http://eljjdx.canalblog.com//12/23/25958296.html … via
@opardon@Blogizmo cf. http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/… pour les aspects computationnels (migation started) - “Travailler chez soi le soir…” http://www.rue89.com//12/24/travailler-chez-soi-le-soir-forcement-un-stress-237715 …
Did I miss something ?
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