Picks
- Bicycle skills from The Endeavour
- Dinosaurs, baboons, and science journalists from Language Log
- Identifying dolphins with technology from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Is Data Science Scary? from no free hunch
- It's all about who? from Language Log
- Natural Language in Voice Search from Google Research Blog
- Nigel Holmes on explanation graphics and how he got started from FlowingData
Other News
- A book with a bunch of simple graphs from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- A prediction for the Olympic men's 100m sprint from Revolutions
- Bare bones beamer from Research tips
- Computing for Data Analysis {a new offering from Coursera} from Computational Legal Studies
- First Look IBM Operational Decision Management v8 from JT on EDM
- Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 basics from Revolutions
- Livehoods - Behavioural Neighborhood Mapping from Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
- Naive vs Complex solutions from Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials
- Olympic Badminton is Not Incentive Compatible from Turing's Invisible Hand
- Olympic Body Doubles and the Global Fat Check from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- Preserving Privacy in Big Data from Markus Breitenbach
- The Guerilla Guide to Social Business from ribbonfarm
