Picks
- Chords and cords: Everyone is wrong from Language Log
- Helping the World to Teach from Google Research Blog
- History of tax breaks from FlowingData
- How people are connected on Facebook, by country from FlowingData
- Power Searching with Google is back from Google Research Blog
- Sounding the alarm on the subjunctive from Language Log
- What is an object? from The Endeavour
- Who (and what) can you trust? How non-verbal cues can predict a person's (and a robot's) trustworthiness from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
- Wikipedia is dominated by male editors from FlowingData
Other News
- Compressive Sensing and Advanced Matrix Factorization This Month from Nuit Blanche
- Integrate data and reporting on the Web with knitr from Revolutions
- Locating Mountains and More with Mahout and Public Weather Dataset from Sematext Blog
- Lots of new content in the updated Decision Management Systems Platform Report from JT on EDM
- Parse this! from Mr. Verb
- Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required) from ribbonfarm
- Some quantum Stuff from Computational Complexity
- The gentle revolutionary fervor from The CrowdFlower Blog
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements from Data Miners Blog
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements from Data Miners Blog
- Using the instrumental variables or potential outcomes approach to clarify causal thinking from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science