Picks
- And the winner of the Metcalf Prize is… from Language Log
- Defensible software from The Endeavour
- How viral photos spread on Facebook from FlowingData
- Ignorance about ignorance from Language Log
- Observing Dark Worlds: A Beginners Guide to Dark Matter & How to Find It from no free hunch
- Simpsons from Language Log
Other News
- A good showing from FXPAL Blog
- Because it's Friday: Continuous Life looks like life from Revolutions
- Elderpedia from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Five EECS positions at the Colorado School of Mines from Nuit Blanche
- Free and commercial alternatives to Simulink from Walking Randomly
- Invariance of Principal Components under Low-Dimensional Random Projection of the Data from Nuit Blanche
- Nine lightning talks on R from Revolutions
- Predict Elections with Twitter from The mloss.org community blog
- The Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm and estimation on graphs from Adventures in Data Land
- Venn Diagrams in Python from Four Years Remaining
