Picks
- Emacs key bindings in Visual Studio from The Endeavour
- Infographics are like Mothers Day cards from FlowingData
- Les Baguettes Pkin from Language Log
- The Higgs Boson explained by PhD Comics from FlowingData
- The broccoli horrible from Language Log
- Wordless traffic signs in China from Language Log
Other News
- 2012 Summer Singularity Challenge from Singularity Institute Blog
- A new open journal on Data Science from Revolutions
- Hamburger Timetable: Train Waiting Times as McDonalds Items to Eat from information aesthetics
- Happy Higgs- Boson Day from DecisionStats
- Ill Be There in 20 Minutes from Infochimps Blog
- Saving Output in R for Presentations from DecisionStats
- The $60,000 cat: deep belief networks make less sense for language than vision from AI and Social Science - Brendan O'Connor
- The New York Times on False Positives and False Negatives from in theory
- The Perpetual Conference from Marginally Interesting by Mikio L. Braun
- Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Would Bet on Everything from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- What is in the Data? The Higgs Boson Explained as Live Infographics from information aesthetics
