The Most Important Concept in IT and Other Data Links of the Week

A nice post on statistics and codes, that I read this week

• “Statisticians and computer scientists – if there is no code, there is no paper” http://simplystatistics.org/… via walkingrandomly

and till a lot of interesting posts

• “It is a pretty great time to be a geek in education” http://girlsaregeeks.com/… on GirlsAreGeeks‘s blog
• “Putting New Wine into Old Bottles” http://papers.ssrn.com/ … ”Investigation of the Effect of Newcomers on Cooperation in a Trust Social Dilemma”
• “The Mystery of Curry” http://slate.com/… ”It turns out we’ve been eating the spiced dish for a lot longer than anyone ever imagined.”
• “Bayesian vs. Frequentist: Is there any “there” there?” http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/…
• “I Pick, Something That Ends in ‘N’” http://nytimes.com/… (“36% newborn boys whose names end in N”) via http://andrewgelman.com/… and blogizmo
• “The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study” http://arxiv.org/0907.0455  via ritholtz
• “Hard to Put Red-Light Violations Under a Lens” http://online.wsj.com/… by CarlBialik a.k.a. the Numbers Guy
• “Legitimacy of citations in publishing” http://ceon.rs12122.pdf  ”the case of proliferation of papers” via http://www.rsc.org/… and J_P_Boucher
• “From fight against polio to fixing education, what’s missing is often good measurement and commitment to follow data” http://online.wsj.com/…
• “Is college education really expanding ?” http://crookedtimber.org/… by John Quiggin viaMarkThoma
• “A classical measure of evidence for general null hypotheses” by Alexandre G. Patriota http://arxiv.org/1201.0400 
• “So-called value-at-risk models (VaR) blend science and art” http://economist.com//393171
  
• “The Placebo Phenomenon” http://harvardmagazine.com/…
• “The power and the terror of Irrational Expectation” http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.fr/ … byNoahpinion
• “What’s wrong with drinking in public?” (in Canada and U.S) http://worthwhile.typepad.com/…  byfranceswoolley
• “Patterns of Literacy among U.S. Students” http://futureofchildren.org/… viahttp://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/…
• “The future of academic publishing” http://mcgilldaily.com/…“What the Open Access movement is all about”
• “A drop in the jet stream sent temperatures across the United States plummeting…” http://blog.usa.gov/…
• “The university professor is always white” http://guardian.co.uk/… ”and a man”http://guardian.co.uk/ …
• “Keep it simple, avoid the pitfalls” http://washingtonpost.com/… by ritholtz
• “When Economists Agree, Start Worrying” http://online.wsj.com/…
• “Revolution Hits the Universities” http://nytimes.com/… via ‏simplystats
• “what is the most important concept information technology has developed?” http://geek-and-poke.com/…