Picks
- Coffee posts from The Endeavour
- Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men from FlowingData
- Lots of planets have a north from Language Log
- Passive voice wrongly accused yet again from Language Log
- Sweden's gender-neutral 3rd-person singular pronoun from Language Log
- Working with your Data: Easier and More Fun from Google Research Blog
Other News
- A brief EPSRC update from Gowers's Weblog
- Because it's Friday: Visualizing ocean currents from Revolutions
- Congratulations to Radhika Nagpal from My Biased Coin
- Data Mining Book Review: The Value of Business Analytics from Data Mining Research
- Easter Eggs in #Rstats from DecisionStats
- How to manipulate the masses by language alone from Daniel Lemire's blog
- If at first you dont succeed, normalize, normalize again from An Ergodic Walk
- In the News this Week... from My Biased Coin
- Jack Choi: On the Virtual Dissection Table [ TED 2012 ] from Computational Legal Studies
- Mathematics in stained glass from Walking Randomly
- Meme and 'Among the new words' from Mr. Verb
- Not only defended but also applied: The perceived absurdity of Bayesian inference from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Predictive Analytics World, June 25-26, 2012 in Chicago from datamining2 at Yahoo! Groups
- Question of the week: Will the authors of a controversial new study apologize to busy statistician Don Berry for wasting his time reading and responding to their flawed article? from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- R's continued growth in academia from Revolutions
- The Seventh Seal (1957) from Chemoton Vitorino Ramos' research notebook
- Wanted Dead or Alive: Search Engineer with Client-facing Skills from Sematext Blog