Picks
- Grammar vs. style: ignorance in The Times from Language Log
- Looking for small projects from The Endeavour
- Meteorites seen falling since 2500BC visualized from FlowingData
- Protesting too much from Language Log
- Tabudish and the origins of Mandarin from Language Log
Other News
- A theorem on dominance of random variables from David R. MacIver
- Best To Mix Odd, Ordinary from Overcoming Bias
- Big Data Republic's list of Top 20 Big Data Accounts on Twitter from Revolutions
- David Books, Word Classes, and Google Ngrams from The Lousy Linguist
- FaST-LMM-Set from Microsoft Research Downloads
- GBC: gradient boosting consensus model for heterogeneous data from Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
- How To Do a Big Data Project: A Template for Success from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- PalBOMP/PolBOMP: Compressive Parameter Estimation for Sparse Translation-Invariant Signals Using Polar Interpolation - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Presentacin: "Menores y mviles: Usos, riesgos y controles parentales" from Nihil Obstat
- R/Finance 2013 - quick take from Revolutions
- Radiology and Crowdsourcing from The CrowdFlower Blog
- Research Software Made in Manchester from Walking Randomly
- Robotic space-colony construction, cubesats for Mars, transhumanists on space, and more…. from KurzweilAI Blog
- Slides from the workshop on Big Data: Theoretical and Practical Challenges from Nuit Blanche
- To Throw Away Data: Plagiarism as a Statistical Crime from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- VerbCorner - crowd sourcing and verb meaning from The Lousy Linguist
- Vote in the KDnuggets poll on Analytics Software from Revolutions
