Picks
- An unexpected ingredient from Language Log
- Avoiding underflow in Bayesian computations from The Endeavour
- Fiddling with spelling shibboleths while the economy burns from Language Log
- First robot that mimics the water striders' jumping abilities from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- From statistics to data science, and vice versa from FlowingData
- Stewart on "You didn't build that," Colbert on "Anglo-Saxon heritage" from Language Log
- Swimsuit technology and breaking world records from FlowingData
- The Redemption of Zombie Nouns from Language Log
- Tracking the spread of AIDS from FlowingData
Other News
- Another R mention in the NYT from Revolutions
- Big vectors coming to R from Revolutions
- Data Streaming in Dortmund: Day II from The Geomblog
- Dyslexic Notation from information aesthetics
- Elastic net, LASSO, and LARS in Python from Explainaway's Blog
- First Look Experian Decision Analytics PowerCurve Platform from JT on EDM
- GraphLab workshop presentations from Nuit Blanche
- Our broken scholarly publishing system from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Some thoughts on survey weighting from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- The power of customer decision management a webinar and more from JT on EDM
