Picks
- A thrill for those with logophilia from Language Log
- A tip on using a French press from The Endeavour
- Add a Wolfram Demonstration to Your Site in One Easy Step from Wolfram Blog
- Data and visualization blogs worth following from FlowingData
- How variable are percentiles? from The Endeavour
Other News
- 52 Billion Chickens from Infochimps Blog
- A look at a few Tripos questions I from Gowers's Weblog
- A problem clearly stated is a problem... from Computational Information Geometry Wonderland
- Avengers Review from DecisionStats
- Bad news about (some) statisticians from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Because it's Friday: Five musicians, one guitar from Revolutions
- CAI: A Glimpse of Lana and Robust PCA from Nuit Blanche
- Converting SAS language code to Java from DecisionStats
- Example email to a hacked site from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
- Generalizing Compressed Sensing: GraSP implementation available from Nuit Blanche
- HBase Real-time Analytics & Rollbacks via Append-based Updates (Part 2) from Sematext Blog
- Hanan Samet wins Kanellakis Prize! from Computational Complexity
- How to Lie with Statistics guy worked for the tobacco industry to mock studies of the risks of smoking statistics from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- I left Push Down Automata out of my class and learned some things! from Computational Complexity
- Introducing Data Science Seminars from Marginally Interesting by Mikio L. Braun
- Movement in Manhattan: Mapping the Speed and Direction of Twitter Users from information aesthetics
- R equivalents to SAS and SPSS procedures from Revolutions
- Region connectivity graphs in Python [edit: minor bug] from Peekaboo
- The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill from A Computer Scientist in a Business School
- Working with the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset from HubLog