Picks
- Approximate quotations from Language Log
- Did Harry Reid lie? Politifact says so. from Language Log
- Grammarian's café from Language Log
- Network analysis on high school hierarchy of friends from FlowingData
- Second-generation public-key cryptography from The Endeavour
- Unprincipled analysis from The Endeavour
- Updating distribution diagram with JavaScript from The Endeavour
Other News
- Macro, micro, and conflicts of interest from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Meaningful QA sample size in e-discovery from IREvalEtAl
- Nested Linear Programs to Find Agreement among Sensors from bpchesney.org
- New R User Groups in San Antonio, Milwaukee, Nicaragua from Revolutions
- Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech from Jeff's Search Engine Caff
- Obfuscate using Rapid Miner from DecisionStats
- On feeding your CPU with data from Daniel Lemire's blog
- Reading Gauges - Detecting Lines and Circles from solem's vision blog
- Retro ethnic slurs from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- The Impact of a Nationwide Drought from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- Variable precision QR decomposition in MATLAB from Walking Randomly