Picks
- Galbraith: the secret clue from Language Log
- Rappers claimed wealth versus actual wealth from FlowingData
- The seven color map theorem from The Endeavour
- Using Formulas for EverythingFrom a Complex Analysis Class to Political Cartoons to Music Album Covers from Wolfram Blog
Other News
- A(nother) nice use of Gen Functions from Computational Complexity
- Axiom Law: BigLaws Friend or Enemy? (via Bloomberg Law) from Computational Legal Studies
- DataMind A New Effort to Teach R online for free #rstats from DECISION STATS
- PhD studentship: "Low-Dimensional Prior Models for Hyperspectral Images and Applications" from Nuit Blanche
- Prior distributions on derived quantities rather than on parameters themselves from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Recent Random Musings from My Biased Coin
- a cute paper: finding a most biased coin with fewest flips from An Ergodic Walk