Picks
- Acts of terror: a linguistic angle from Language Log
- Tracking homicides in Washington, D.C. from FlowingData
- xkcd-style charts in R, JavaScript, and Python from FlowingData
Other News
- Because it's Friday: 7 billion-person 'continents' from Revolutions
- Garth Gaudry from What's new
- Gartner: IT to spend $232B on Big Data over 5 years from Revolutions
- Intrade to the 57th power from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- MATLAB Mobile for Android from Walking Randomly
- Notes on Hadoop adoption and trends from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- Quick links from Geeking with Greg
- Statistical discrimination again from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
