A series of posts (on blogs) elsewhere,
- “Young researchers vs. peer reviewing”http:// blogs.nature.com/houseof
- “Scholarly publishing is broken” by digiwonk “Is it time to consider guerrilla self-publishing?” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial …
- “How journals manipulate the importance of research”http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial …
- “Bankers and neuroscience of greed” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ … “unconstrained power of bankers acts like a drug on their brains’ reward systems”
- “Where to Live (in the U.S.) to Avoid a Natural Disaster” http://visual.ly/where-live-avo …
- “When the Crowd Isn’t Wise” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/sun …
- “What is the intuitive relationship between singular value decomposition and principal component analysis ?”http:// math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagg…
- “Is linear regression unethical ?…” http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/is-lin … “…in that it gives more weight to cases that are far from the average”
- “Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world” http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/7983
- “We’ve been brainwashed” http://www.salon.com/2012/06/14/wev … “It’s no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality”
- “University applications drop am
id higher tuition fees”http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012 … “Total number of applicants to British universities drops 7.7%” - “I got more data, my model is more refined, but my estimator is getting worse! Am I just dumb?” http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/xiao-l …
- “struggles regarding personal genomic data” http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience … “legal issues, insurance costs and cultural concerns” by girlscientist
- “Racial Composition of Jury Pool Strongly Affects Probability of Convicting Black Defendants” via http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-racial …
- “Economists have a mystique among social scientists because they know mathematics” http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/j …
- “Statisticians recommend graphics but often use tables to present their own research results” http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/resear … via
- “News flash: Probability and statistics are hard to understand”http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/news-f …StatModeling‘s answer tohttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 …
- surprising thing in economic (academic) journals is that you see tables with p-values but rarely graphs http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 … cc felixsalmon
- “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Data”http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/201 …
ou en francais,
- “Financement du supérieur : faut-il faire payer les étudiants ?”http://www. ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog/?p=2078 avec le document de travailhttp://www. ofce.sciences-po.fr/pdf/dtravail/ …
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portrait d’un Data Geeks par
@datapublica http://www.data-publica.com/content/2012/0 … -
“Tous les économistes devraient s’inquiéter de l’état de la macro” (économie) par adelaigue http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/dotclear/index …
- “Universités françaises : autonomes mais en crise”http://www. marianne2.fr/Universites-fr …
- “Faillite” des universités? “pas de commentaire” chez la ministre Fioraso http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/soci … i.e 1/4 des universités http://www. lemonde.fr/enseignement-s …
- “Prêts étudiants aux Etats-Unis : les nouveaux “subprimes” ?” http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/arti …
- “L’industrie du divertissement est une bande de pillards. Plaidoyer pour la suppression du droit d’auteur” http://politiquedunetz.sploing.fr/2012/04/lindus … via sh_lelabo