Picks
- An unexpected verbing from Language Log
- Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny from Wolfram Blog
- Einstein Bros ciabatta from Language Log
- Probability question from The Endeavour
- Terminal A from The Endeavour
- The birthday problem explained from FlowingData
- Training computers to understand the human brain from ScienceDaily: Artificial Intelligence News
Other News
- "come to lab" from The Lousy Linguist
- APOPHENIA English words I am in love with #4 from Chemoton Vitorino Ramos' research notebook
- Animating Random Projections of High Dimensional Data from Peekaboo
- Because it's Friday: Southern Skies from Revolutions
- Big Data Projects, Short Survey, Enter to Win from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- FT Innovative Lawyers 2012 from Computational Legal Studies
- Graphcuts for Python: pygco (slight update) from Peekaboo
- High temperatures cause violent crime and implications for climate change, also some suggestions about how to better summarize these claims from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Importing data into MATLAB from Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials
- Join our Reddit Experiment, Join the CompressiveSensing subreddit and post there ! from Nuit Blanche
- Meeting: Sparse Representations, Compressed Sensing and Applications from Nuit Blanche
- MiTexCube: MicroTextCluster cube for online analysis of text cells and its applications from Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
- Report from COMSOC 2012 from Turing's Invisible Hand
- SimpleR tricks and tools from Research tips
- Style your R charts like the Economist, Tableau ... or XKCD from Revolutions
- The Abundances of Ages from ribbonfarm
- changes in referential phrasing in presidential debates from The Lousy Linguist