Silly Heat Maps, Significant Stats, and More Data Links of the Week

Some interesting posts and articles found this week:

• "Academia: Off the tenured track" http://www.nature.com/natence/articles/10.1038/nj7425-627a?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureJobs…
• "If you deliver a edgy experience for students you quite often push them outside their comfort zone" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-edu…
• "An empirical study on the determinants of international student mobility: a global perspective" http://link.springer.com/07/s10734-012-9593-5…
• Nicolas Gueguen, on "higher volumes led beer drinkers in a bar to imbibe more" http://www.icd.go.cr/sitio/… see also http://www.nytimes.com/nyregion/in-new-york-city-indoor-noise-goes-unabated.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all…
• Twitter, and "the notion of self-promotion"http://micro2tele.com/the-notion-of-self-promotion/…
• thoughts on heat maps, via http://xkcd.com/1138/

• "Remember Movember: the science behind the moustache"http://www.guardian.co.uk/brain-flapping/2012/nov/20/movember-science-moustache…
• "How noisy is economics/finance peer review?" http://jamesjchoi.blogspot.ca/howisy-is-economicsfinance-peer.html…
• "Economists as dentists" (from Keynes)http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling… via @adelaigue
• "How to Live Without Irony" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/how-to-live-without-irony/…
• "Ask A Banker: Are The Banks Still Too Big To Fail?" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/12/11/20/165585171/ask-a-banker-are-the-banks-still-too-big-to-fail?ft=1&f=93559255…
• geography of college foot fans http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/he-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/…

• "Behind the Green Square: Why Many Students Opposed the Strike" (Quebec's spring) http://www.academicmatters.ca/behind...-the-green-square-why-many-students-opposed-the-strike/
• "Scientists Display Tenacious Teleological Tendencies: Purpose-Based Reasoning as a Cognitive Default"http:// dx.doi.org/30399…
• "Will 2015 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?"http:// r4stats.com/beginning-of-the-end/…
• "Deterrence versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts among States" http://www.michiganlawreview.org/4/2/Shepherd.pdf…econometrics and law, nice !
• "Measuring the Complexity of the Dates of Holidays" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience012/11/measuring-the-complexity-of-the-dates-of-holidays/… on "Kolmogorov complexity of dates of various national holidays"
• "Thoughts on Teaching the Coase Theorem"http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/11/what-is-so-hard-to-understand-about-the-coase-theorem.html… by @franceswoolley
• "Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C.I.A. Chief Couldn’t"http://www.nytimes.com/technology/trying-to-keep-your-e-mails-secret-when-the-cia-chief-couldnt.html?_r=0… via @latrive
• "A map that helped reshape the world" http://juanvelascoblog.com/a-map-that-helped-reshape-the-world/… by the Art Director of National Geographic

• "Charting weather disasters" http://juanvelascoblog.com/charting-weather-disasters/…
• "Rains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don’t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms"http:// ngm.nationalgeographic.com/extreme-weather/miller-text…
• "‘Shadow Banking’ [http://en.wikipedia.org/Shnking_system…] Up to $67 Trillion, Financial Group Says" http://www.nytimes.com/usiness/shadow-banking-up-to-67-trillion-financial-group-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0…
• "unusual drive for academics to work with economists and banks in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis"http://www.universityworldnews.com/articl…
• False-Positive "Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant"http:// dx.doi.org/56797611417632…
• "Does “Statistical Significance” Imply “Actually Signifiant”?"http://popsych.org/does-statistical-significance-imply-actually-signifiant/… via @introspection
• "Thinking like a statistician (continuously) rather than like a civilian (discretely)" http://andrewgelman.com/thinking-like-a-statistician-continuously-rather-than-like-a-civilian-discretely/… on@StatModeling's blog
•  "Gender and the effects on car insurance in the U.K."http://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/monitor-gender/…

• "Columbia Data Science Class" http://columbiadatascience.com/blog/ by Rachel Schut
• Marwell and Ames's "Economists Free Ride, Does Anyone Else?"http://econ.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/E264/papers/Marwell%20Ames%20JPubE%201981.pdf… revised by @franceswoolleyworthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/11/economics-and-cooperation-revisited.html…
• Frank, Gilovich and Regan's "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" http://docenti.unimc.it/docenti/luca-de-benedictis/laboratorio-di-economia-internazionale-applicata-2006-2/Frank-Gilovich-Regan93.pdf… (still via@franceswoolley)
• "Solving the Too Big to Fail Problem" http://www.newyorkfed.org/newseches/2012/dud121115.html… (William C. Dudley's speech)
• "productivity of teaching, measured in kb transmitted from teacher to student per unit of time, hasn’t increased much" http://www.cato-unbound.org/alex-tabarrok/why-online-education-works/…
• "'Black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management" http://news.stanford.edu/nember/black-swan-risk-111612.html…
• "Analysis of the statistics blogosphere" http://realizationsinbiostatistics.blogspot.ca/2012/11/analysis-of-statistics-blogosphere.htmlalizationsinbiostatistics.blogspot.ca/analys…… by@randomjohn
• "Moments determine the tail of a distribution (but not much else)” by Lindsay & Basak http://www.personal.psu.edu/user… via @JohnDCook