Picks
- "Have a good day!" in Mandarin from Language Log
- A quantitative history of which-hunting from Language Log
- Analyzing text messages to save lives from FlowingData
- Finders and Seekers: Community-sourced Competitions from no free hunch
- Members Only: Mapping with Diffusion-based Cartograms from FlowingData
- Teen attacked by kebab van from Language Log
Other News
- A trivial remark about schemes from What's new
- Bestselling Author Caught Posting Positive Reviews of His Own Work on Amazon from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Broadcast gossip revisited : companion variables and convergence to consensus from An Ergodic Walk
- But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. from My Biased Coin
- Coexist from The XX: Mapping Viral Marketing as a Way of Viral Marketing from information aesthetics
- Come work at Carnegie Mellon! from Michael Trick's Operations Research Blog
- Decision Management Summit customer engagement, business agility and real-time decision management from JT on EDM
- Dilbert Meets Big Unstructured Data and Builds a Framework from LingPipe Blog
- Forbes: The Next Big Data Acquisition and Getting Rid of Data Scientists from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- How to create random binary matrices in R from Revolutions
- Johnson on NP-completeness from 0xDE
- Levels of Abstractions in Big Data from Marginally Interesting by Mikio L. Braun
- Marc Hauser [finally] responds from The Lousy Linguist
- Style your ggplot2 charts with Themes from Revolutions
- The Drake Equation as Infographics: Do Extraterrestrials Exist? from information aesthetics
- TwitterScope gets best paper at GD from 0xDE
- Two exciting movie ideas: Second Chance U and The New Dirty Dozen from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
