Picks
- EA Investing in the Next-Generation with Proceduralism Post-SSX from Game AI for Developers
- Lacking semantic support from unexpected quarters from Language Log
- Morphing robots and shape-shifting sculptures: Origami-inspired design merges engineering, art from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Not so good use of pie charts from FlowingData
- The 1970s from The Endeavour
- The U.K. energy consumption guide from FlowingData
Other News
- A visual data summary for data frames from Revolutions
- Berlin Buzzwords Free Tickets from Sematext Blog
- Cool analytic stories from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- Fast bitmap decoding from Daniel Lemire's blog
- Graphcuts for Python: pygco (slight update) from Peekaboo
- Hans Rosling's Shortest Talk Ever from information aesthetics
- Instruction Theory? from Machined Learnings
- New RCommander with ggplot #rstats from DecisionStats
- On Generations from my slice of pizza
- Question 11 of my final exam for Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Responding to a bizarre anti-social-science screed from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- S3Chimp: Information Science in Action from Infochimps Blog
- Summer School on Massive Data Mining in Copenhagen from My Biased Coin
- Two Hamiltonian Monte Carlo papers from Radford Neal's blog
- Visualizing Bigger Data in R using Tableplot from DecisionStats