Picks
- Helping teachers teach computer science from Google Research Blog
- Job Board, October 2014 from FlowingData
- Network Science dashboards from O'Reilly Radar Ben Lorica
- New York Times mapmakers from FlowingData
- Oh no! from Language Log
- RIP Frank Mankiewicz, coiner of "retronym" from Language Log
- There are many use cases for graph databases and analytics from O'Reilly Radar Ben Lorica
- Visual summary of skateboarding tournament from FlowingData
Other News
- An Alternative to the Seddighin-Hajiaghayi Ranking Methodology from in theory
- Book: "Foundations of Data Science" by John Hopcroft and Ravindran Kannan from Nuit Blanche
- Harvard Junior Faculty Job Search from My Biased Coin
- ICIP 2014 from Steve on Image Processing
- Paper at SISAP2014 on large-scale LSH for general metric data from Eduardo Valle's Blog
- Solution to the helicopter design problem from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- SparsePR: Robust Sparse Phase Retrieval Made Easy - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Talks in Python: Interactive Instruction with RISE from Healthy Algorithms
- Using DBstack in MATLAB to get a stack trace from Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials
- Why can't I buy a solar panel somewhere else in the US and get a credit for the electricity from it? from Geeking with Greg
