Picks
- Interview technique from Language Log
- Is English a "writer-responsible language" and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese "reader-responsible languages"? from Language Log
- Old maps overlaid on Google Maps from FlowingData
- Scaling up data frames from O'Reilly Radar Ben Lorica
- The grammar of "Better Together" from Language Log
- The second life of a Language Log comment from Language Log
- Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey? from Wolfram Blog
Other News
- Easily create documents from R with Rmarkdown from Revolutions
- Generating quantile forecasts in R from Hyndsight
- My talk at the Simons Foundation this Wed 5pm from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- My talk with David Schiminovich this Wed noon: The Birth of the Universe and the Fate of the Earth: One Trillion UV Photons Meet Stan from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- On deck this week from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Talk at DCC, Universidad de Chile on Locality-Sensitive Hashing from Eduardo Valle's Blog
- Teaching Sorting from My Biased Coin
- Tim Harford on forecasting from Hyndsight
- WGSQuikr: Fast Whole-Genome Shotgun Metagenomic Classification - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
