Picks
- 11 Billion Clues in 800 Million Documents: A Web Research Corpus Annotated with Freebase Concepts from Google Research Blog
- Movie sounds from FlowingData
- New research from Google shows that 88% of the traffic generated by mobile search ads is not replaced by traffic originating from mobile organic search from Google Research Blog
Other News
- 30 day challenge: no social media, no news from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
- A poll that throws away data??? from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Deepen your R experience with Rcpp from Revolutions
- Elon Musk Will Reveal His High-Speed Hyperloop Transport Design By August 12 (via TC) from Computational Legal Studies
- First Look: Sparkling Logic Update from JT on EDM
- Job: Senior Blaze Advisor Developer from JT on EDM
- MS Faculty Summit Day One from My Biased Coin
- MS Faculty Summit Day Two from My Biased Coin
- Optimally weighted recovery of a low-rank signal matrix from a high-dimensional signal-plus-noise matrix - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Self-Service BI customers are not all the same (Part 1) from Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing
- Stop and frisk statistics from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Verifiable computing from Microsoft Research Downloads
