Congrats! You're Cool - and More Data Links of the Week

The good news of this week, undoubtedly, is

• “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus” http://online.wsj.com/article/… and http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… by CarlBialik via msgbi

but still a lot of interesting posts can be found elsewhere,

• “Having Fun with the 4-Color Theorem” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/… and “Wrong in Public” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/… by evelynjlamb via lauramclay
• “Decline of French Universities”http://understandingsociety.blogspot.ca/…
• “Twitter is not a random sample” http://statschat.org.nz/…on statschat‘s blog via egschmitt
• “Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion” http://pewresearch.org/… via Duncan_rdvav
• “How sports analytics have become a real game-changer” http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/… via MarkThoma
• (in Bayesian Statistics) “Do People “Really” Have Priors?” http://popsych.org/do-people-/ …
• “French immersion opens doors” http://ipolitics.ca/… by devonblack via KarineMyrgianie
• “French is one of the languages of the 21st century and it must stay on the syllabus of universities” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via phd35
• “Adapting to Climate Change: Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century” http://www.nber.org/papers/w18692
• “The Motley Roots of Data Visualization in 19th Century Census Charts” http://theatlanticcities.com/design/… see e.g.

• “Are You an Investor or a Speculator?” by jasonzweigwsj part 1 http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/… and part 2 http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/…
• “U.S. Economic Mobility: The Dream and the Data” by Leila Bengali and Mary Daly http://frbsf.org/publications/economics/… via MarkThoma
• “Spurious Correlations Everywhere: the Tragedy of Big Data” http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/… by Geoffrey Pullum (behind LanguageLog) via crampell
• “Turning maths pupils into World War II codebreakers” http://guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/… via NGhoussoub
• [free ebook] ”A Mathematical Theory of Communication” in 1948 http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/… by Claude Shannon
• “Pessimism About the Future May Lead to Longer, Healthier Life” http://apa.org… via ‏bricksscience
• “Notes on prototyping the Guardian’s editorial emails and what we learned about their design and user experience” http://guardian.co.uk/info/…
• “Why It’s Smart to Be Reckless on Wall Street”http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/… by Chris_arnade via cynorrhodon
• “The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation” http://nber.org/papers/w18301  by Lawrence Goulder and Roberton Williams III
• “Teleworking: The myth of working from home” http://bbc.co.uk/… by Margaret Ryan
• “Google thinks it created a monster in Samsung” http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/… and http://online.wsj.com/… on duopole Apple-Samsung, via ‏tdelahais
• “That is why novels sell better than statistics texts” http://johnkay.com/… on JohnKayFT‘s blog, via cynorrhodon
• “Most people no longer consider global warming serious as financial crisis changes priorities” http://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/… via mattstat
• unemployement vs. finance, cointegration ICSA (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ICSA/ …) vs. SP500, via http://businessinsider.com/initial-claims-vs-stocks… see

• “Disastrous Predictions and Predictable Disasters” http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… by NYTimeskrugman
• “10 amazing scientific facts about lists” http://guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/… ”People like lists [?], but why” via celiameriguet
• [free ebook] “Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach”, by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak http://cs.princeton.edu/theory/… (all chapters in pdf)
• “Student Debt Nearly Tripled In 8 Years” http://huffingtonpost.com/… by tylerkingkade via aussietorres see also http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org…
• “How Airline Ticket Prices Fell 50% in 30 Years (and Why Nobody Noticed)” http://theatlantic.com/business/… via Noahpinion and mattyglesias
• “Academic papers” http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/…