Buzy week-end, with several very interesting posts and articles (as usual, outside my blog)
- “When Simplicity Is the Solution” http://online.wsj.com/…
- “Why So Many Jobs Are Crappy” http://heteconomist.com/… by
heteconomist
- “State Medicaid Eligibility and Care Delayed Because of Cost” http://nejm.org/doi/… in the US via
RomainSchneck see
- “Who, What, Why: What is ‘ungoogleable’?” http://bbc.co.uk/news/…
- “It can’t happen here?: Cyprus and money market funds” http://marginalrevolution.com/… via
TweetEcon onMargRev‘s blog - “Armed correlations” http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/… no proof of causal effect “doesn’t mean that correlations are meaningless” via
albertocairo - “When Judges Can’t Do Math, Justice Suffers” http://nytimes.com/…
- “Is ‘Google Flu Trends’ Prescient Or Wrong?” (in Jan. 2013) http://commonhealth.wbur.org/… via
EdwardTufte
- [thesis] congratulations to Pierre Jacob for his PhD thesis price http://smai.emath.fr/… (see https://sites.google.com/pierrejacob/… for the thesis)
- “Internet Topology: Massive and Amazing Graphs” http://bigdatanews.com/… by analyticbridge via ZLynxMaster
- “Gary King and Stuart Shieber on Open Access” http://blog.opencpu.org/… and https://youtu.be/jD6CcFxRelY via Rbloggers
- “Don’t Fire An Employee And Leave Them In Charge Of The Corporate Twitter Account” http://forbes.com/sites/susanadams/… via
data_nerd [Easter] “How to eat chocolate indefinitely” http://i.imgur.com/qjjlkGm.gif (pic) and how it works http://imgur.com/E8k4TDf via jackschofield
- “Unlearning” by marcprecipice, on the value of ‘unlearning’ in your career. http://blog.precipice.org/unlearning/ via hmason and malpern
- “The Economics of Evil Google” http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… “Search as a public utility?” by NYTimeskrugman
- “The password can’t contain obscene language” RT
JGamblin If no one can see your password why couldnt it be obscene?
- “Can humans cause earthquakes ?” http://link.brightcove.com/services/… via http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… see also “Earthquakes have become more than 10 times more common in normally quiescent parts of the US in the past few years” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/…
- “How much does it cost to publish a research paper?” Richvn crunched the numbers http://nature.com/news/… via ivanoransky and martinenserink see also “Price of prestige” (in academic journals) http://nature.com/news/… see
- “A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move” http://fastcoexist.com/1681677/… via adelaigue and
Tournyol see
- “(3d) Heat maps of Paris metro” http://metropolitain.io/ to visualize congestions by dataveyes via wired
- “Making friends with your data: Improving how statistics are conducted and reported” http://baomee.info/pdf/…
- “Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted” http://magazine.amstat.org/… via Statistics2013 and deagiles
- [free ebook] “A Treatise on Probability” by John Maynard Keynes http://gutenberg.org/files/…
- stevenstrogatz: e^π – π is almost 20;it’s 19.999… by arbesman on “almost Integers” http://wired.com/wiredscience/…
- Dow Jones versus SP500, via DEAGiles interesting graph !
avec cette semaine encore plusieurs articles en français, le premier presque exclusivement pour les montréalais
- “
#manifencours – Je suis allé voir ma psy” http://leglobe.ca/ … - “Prénom scientifique ou littéraire ?” http://coulmont.com/… analyse des séries au bac par l’inégalable coulmont
- “Combien vaut la planète?” http://ledevoir.com/environnement/…
- “Bien universel, par essence, l’article scientifique, n’est pas un bien comme les autres” http://cpu.fr/Actualites… via
Infusoir etbodyspacesoc - « Certaines universités ont une responsabilité particulière dans l’attractivité de la France » http://orientation.blog.lemonde.fr/…
- “A quoi sert Twitter ?” http://telos-eu.com/fr… via (l’outlier)
Blogizmo - “Etudiants canadiens : le syndrome de Paris” http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/… via pareto35
- instructif http://capital.fr/enquetes/strategie/ … via annenat (sur la “war room” de Nestlé)
- “Est-ce bien raisonnable de porter un pantalon taille basse ?” http://lemonde.fr/style/article/2013/… via AdrienneAlix et jlreynal OsezAna
Did I miss something ?