Correlation Implying Causation and More Data Links of the Week
First, a topic I should perhaps discuss more
often on this blog:
Published at DZone with permission of Arthur Charpentier, author and DZone MVB. (source)- "Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?" http://www.slate.com/arti…
- "L'Aquila's earthquake-scarred streets see battle between science and politics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/w/27/laquila-earthquake-battle-science-politics?CMP=twt_fd …
- "L’Aquila: earthquake, verdict, and statistics"http:// xianblog.wordpress.com/20uila-earthquake-verdict-and-statistics/ …
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"Complexity
and the madness of crowds – lessons from disaster prevention" on
@rszbt's bloghttp:// reszatonline.wordpress.com/20plexity-and-the-madness-of-crowds-lessons-from-disaster-prevention/ … -
"Trial
Over Earthquake in Italy Puts Focus on Probability" http://www.nytimes.com/science/04quake.html?_r=1& … via
@statfr - "Italian court ruling sends chill through science community" http://www.reuters.com/a10/22/us-science-manslaughter-italy-idUSBRE89L1IC20121022?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=309301 …
- "Verdict of l’Aquila Earthquake Trial Sends the Wrong Message" about how to deal with hazard assessment and mitigation http://www.wired.com/wir…
- "Scientists on trial: At fault?" http://www.nature.com/110914/pdf/477264a.pdf … (a detailed article)
- "Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter" http://arstechnica.com/s0/italian-scientists-convicted-of-manslaughter-for-earthquake-risk-report/ … "No finding of elevated risk in a report days before a fatal earthquake"
- "The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions” by Natalia Zinovyeva and Manuel Bagues http://ftp.iza.org/dp6821.pdf
- "The Student Debt Crisis" http://www.americanprogress.org/isseducation/report/2012/10/25/42905/the-student-debt-crisis/…
- "Integrals don’t have anything to do within discrete math, do they?"http:// mathdl.maa.org/im…
- [free ebook] "Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple" by Allen B. Downey http://www.greenteapress.com/th…
- "Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, pens a disturbing new memoir on mathematics—and survival" http://www.tabletmag.com/jewd-culture/books/114766/a-math-genius-sad-calculus?all=1 …
- "Milliseconds matter" http://www.washingtonpost.com/bumy/milliseconds-matter/2012/10/25/bedf8210-1ef9-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_graphic.html … "pricing strategies and decision-making process involved in HF trading"
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"The Virtues and Vices of
Election Prediction Markets" http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2-23-the-virtues-and-vices-of-election-prediction-markets/ … by
@fivethirtyeight via http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2… on nerds - "Communication about science doesn’t need to be time-consuming or distracting from research ..." http://blogs.nature.com/soapbox/2012/10/24/an-elevator-pitch-for-a-research-project?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureBlogs&buffer_share=35adc …
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"21
Reasons Why You Should Never Date An Economist" http://inesad.edu.bo/dev… see alsohttp://www. economistsdoitwithmodels.com/20t-for-fun-reasons-not-to-date-an-economist-thanks-guys/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economistsdoitwithmodels+%28Economists+Do+It+With+Models%29 … via
@adelaigue - "Fun with tax: How taxation by government has changed" http://www.economist.com/bloetail/2012/10/daily-chart-12 …
- nice application http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view for those who like words, and graphs
- "Frankenstein Economics is killing capitalism"http://www. marketwatch.com/Stoint?guid=9E40EEA0-1C55-11E2-B624-002128040CF6 …
- "Asset Pricing with Garbage" in the Journal of Finance, last year http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do.1540-6261.2010.01629.x/abstract …
- "The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets"http://www. bis.gov.uk/fore…
- "Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature" by Paul Klemperer http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/us…
- "Ethics and Finance: The Role of Mathematics" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/20-and-finance-role-of-mathematics.html…
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"How
to find a perfect match for a Nobel"http:// timharford.com/how-to-find-a-perfect-match-for-a-nobel/ … by
@timharford via@nereidadin -
"Who
owns research data and the rights to publish it?" http://emckiernan.wordpress.com/who-owns-research-data-and-the-rights-to-publish-it/ … via
@mathewi see also an article on databases property regulated by EU La w http://ec.europa.eu/intt/copyright/prot-databases/index_en.htm … -
"We’re
probably at the death of education" http://thenextweb.com/ins… via
@IanikMarcil - "Can humans cause an earthquake?" http://arstechnica.com/scie0/can-humans-cause-an-earthquake/ … see also http://www.nature.com/ngaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1610.html …
- "Algorithms, Arbitrage, and Overreaction on Intrade"http:// rajivsethi.blogspot.ca/algorithms-arbitrage-and-overreaction.html …
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"Did
the financial blogosphere go away?" http://blogs.reuters.com/feli012/10/23/did-the-financial-blogosphere-go-away/ … by
@felixsalmon via@stanjourdan -
"an XKCD-esque chart" with
#rstats http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/clegg-vs-pleb-an-xkcd-esque-chart/ … answer to http://stackoverflow.com/12675147/xkcd-style-graphs-in-r … 's challenge -
"And
the winner for longest time on record between publication and
retraction is…" http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/and-the-winner-for-longest-time-on-record-between-publication-and-retraction-is/ … via
@NGhoussoub -
"Location,
Location, Location" by Alexandra M. Lord http://chronicle.com/Location-Location-Location/134264/ … via
@tomroud -
"How
ProPublica’s Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting" http://www.propublica.org/ne… via
@propublica and http://www.propublica.org/are-machine-starts-providing-answers … -
If
you're working in Academia “it’s your duty to be miserable” http://chronicle.com/Its-Your-Duty-to-Be/135014/ … by
@Pannapacker via@NGhoussoub@m_m_campbell - Forthcoming actuarial projects on life tables "Average life span for Dwarves, Hobbits and Men" http://lotrproject.com/stfeexpectancy …
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"Scientific
research bodies 'failing to engage public'"http://www. scidev.net/fr/scmunication/news/les-organismes-de-recherche-scientifique-trop-peu-engag-s-avec-le-public-.html … via
@collectifpapera - "Is it meaningful to talk about a probability of “65.7%” that Obama will win the election?" http://andrewgelman.com/is-it-meaningful-to-talk-about-a-probability-of-65-7-that-obama-will-win-the-election/ …
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"Why
It is Essential That Criminal Bankers are Prosecuted"http://www. nakedcapitalism.com/why-it-is-essential-that-criminal-bankers-are-prosecuted.html … via
@michellaurence - "Perhaps the whole ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ school of portfolio allocation is financial wisdom enough" http://timharford.com/when-simplicity-is-a-real-asset/ …
- damned, even the New York Times knows: "You Don’t Work as Hard as You Say You Do" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/you-dont-work-as-hard-as-you-say-you-do/ …
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