Data/Science Links of the Week (including "Big Data Blasphemy -- Why Sample?")
The most interesting post I found in the past few days was probably:
Published at DZone with permission of Arthur Charpentier, author and DZone MVB. (source)- "Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No" http:// chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Change-Academic/134546/?cid=at …
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"What
ails us" by James Surowiecki written (almost 10 years ago) http://www.newyorker.com/2003/07/07/030707ta_talk_surowiecki … discovered via
@adelaigue inhttp:// econo.free.fr/option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=35&codefaq=90… -
"Can
You Live Without a Data Scientist?" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/20_you_live_without_a_data_sc.html … by
@tdav in@HarvardBiz via@trevorbass but why do people talking about "data scientists" never mention "statisticians"? aren't statisticans data scientists ? I though they (we?) were...
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"Production
and reproduction of research work force, effect on innovation and
research misconduct" http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v12/n8/full/embor2011142a.html?WT.ec_id=EMBOR-201108Access%20:%20The%20academic%20birth%20rate%20:%20EMBO%20reports …via
@collectifpapera - an academic job? http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/28/post-doc-research-job-hunt … "anyone entering the research field should be under no illusion that it takes blood, sweat and tears"
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"The
US electoral college explained" http://www.guardian.co.uk/wo12/sep/28/us-electoral-college-explained …why
they don't vote directly for a president via
@smfrogers - "Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News Coverage: A Cohort Study"http://www. plosmedicine.org/artiAdoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001308…
- "understanding the process of research is invaluable (...) for every citizen who is faced with the important decisions" http://blog.mysciencework.com/%E2%80%9Cscience%E2%80%9D-articles-enter-the-classroom.html …
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some
nice opendata (if you won't take a plane in the next 10 days) http://www.guardian.co.uk/… on
@GuardianData's website -
"The
Peak Time for Everything" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444180004578018294057070544-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjAyODY3Wj.html … via
@Bank_Able@Reddy " at 8 am (...) start your day on a cheery note" on Twitter - "Generation Y Is Financially Smarter Than Boomers"http:// blogs.wsj.com/2012/09/28/study-generation-y-is-financially-smarter-than-boomers/ … (but there's no money left)
- "The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil?" http://www.aeonmagazine.com/lir/john-quiggin-keynesian-utopiav1/ …
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"What
About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer?" http://ineteconomics.org/blog/-about-questions-economics-can-t-answer … via
@IanikMarcil -
"Inequality
Kills" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/inequality-kills/ … by
@NytimesKrugman see also http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all …
- "stochastic mapping of food distribution networks for understanding risks and tracing contaminant pathways"http://www. sandia.gov/CasosEngineering/docs/stochastic%20mapping_7_2011.pdf …
- "Social media tips for scientists" http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2012/09/28/social-media-tips-for-scientists/ …
- "how hard is academia?" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/how-hard-is-academia/ …
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"Who
said economists are dull? Finance students are the most promiscuous on
campus" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209275/Economics-students-promiscuous-campus.html … via
@adelaigue -
"High-Speed
Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577551633192136866.html?mod=e2tw … via
@bertil_hatt -
"Why
I Agonize About The Zero Bound"http:// economistsview.typepad.com/timduy/2012/09/why-i-agonize-about-the-zero-bound.html … on
@EconomistsView's blog - "Election heatmap", tell me what you read, I'll tell you who you (might) vote for http://www.amazon.com/gp/election-heatmap/ref=cm_sw_r_tw__d4cyqb05D68ZK/180-1316703-3103135# …
- "Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?" http://smartdatacollective.com/node/47591
- "Beers and U.S. politics" http://shortformblog.com/post/32406767497/beer-political-chart … viahttp:// hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/09/the-politics-of-3.php …
- "How long does it take to afford a beer?"http://www. economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/09/daily-chart-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/beerandlabour … cheapest place to get a beer? go the U.S. and work for 5min
- "a
wall goes up (...) when you try to make Mr & Mrs Average American
Citizen work or think" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore?mbid=social_retweet … via
@V_Grenier@IanikMarcil - "paper
on latent class analysis of democracy dummies"http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers/download.php/?i=7 … by Simon Jackman via
@politbistro -
"The
welfare state’s a worthy Ponzi scheme" by
@JohnKayFThttp://www.ft.com/4db6afd2-064e-11e2-bd29-00144feabdc0.html … -
"the
impossibility of meritocraty"http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/09/the-impossibility-of-meritocracy.html … via
@adelaigue@bp314 - "All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked"http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html … 4 digit codes, first 2 digits (x) and last 2 (y) on the graph below
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"The
Cost of a Happier Chicken: Who Pays?" http://www.freakonomics.com/the-cost-of-a-happier-chicken-who-pays/ … via
@adelaigue
Did I miss something?
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