Picks
- Big chicken from FlowingData
- Ditch Excel and format your data with csvkit from FlowingData
- Half-fast from Language Log
- Plural data from Language Log
- Tasteless coffee from Language Log
- Translating the Umbrella Revolution from Language Log
Other News
- 65% of principals say that at least 30% of students . . . wha?? from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Andreessen-Horowitz Again from My Biased Coin
- Because it's Friday: David Fincher's mastery from Revolutions
- Caltech CMS Faculty Opening 2014 from Random Ponderings
- Coffee is probably not killing your productivity from Daniel Lemire's blog
- Go see Mike from Steve on Image Processing
- Greetings from Allerton 2014 from An Ergodic Walk
- Introducing miniCRAN: an R package to create a private CRAN repository from Revolutions
- Machine learning is the new algorithms from natural language processing blog
- New public miners from IR Thoughts
- Slides: MMDS 2014: Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets from Nuit Blanche
- Speaking Truth to Parallelism at Cornell from Shtetl-Optimized
- The Once Thought Impossible Computations from Nuit Blanche
