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- Eric Siegels Book from DECISION STATS
- Examples combining C++ and R: The Rcpp Gallery from Revolutions
- Greenland is one tough town from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Journal Club is Back from Healthy Algorithms
- Louder Than Words - Book Review Part 2: Ch 2-4 from The Lousy Linguist
- Podcast: Revolution Analytics, R and the changing technology landscape from Revolutions
- SVDFeature: A Toolkit for Feature-based Collaborative Filtering - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- The Higgs Boson Particle Explained in Paper-Based Illustrations from information aesthetics
- Three Ways to Get Your Predictive Models Deployed from Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
- Trend Following Wizards Close of 2012 from Au.Tra.Sy blog - Automated trading System
- Why Ive also joined the good guys from Gowers's Weblog
- Your Warming World: a Global Analysis of Surface Temperatures from information aesthetics