34 Recent Big Data Links (with a Couple EBooks, to Boot!)
Links to some nice articles found (recently) on other blogs, or
websites, in English
Published at DZone with permission of Arthur Charpentier, author and DZone MVB. (source)- "Tensions Run High Between Bank Regulators" on http://wsj.com/P8h6XQ
- "Saving the banks, but not reckless bankers" http://www.voxeu.org/article/criminal-sanctions-how-save-banks-without-rewarding-bankers …
- "To where should all roads lead?" http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/2481611/To-where-should-all-roads-lead.html … via @signmagazine
- "Banks Face Derivatives Margin Losses As Too-Big-To-Fail Ends" http://www. bloomberg.com/news/2012-089/banks-face-derivatives-margin-losses-as-too-big-to-fail-ends-1-.html…
- "Why High-Frequency Trading Doesn’t Compute" http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111904239304577573162788310008.html?mod=BOL_twm_fs …
- "Lorenz curve and U.S. Health Care Spending" http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/you-just-cant-see-this-often-enough/…
- "the survival of the stupidest" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/08/survival-of-the-stupidest.html … via @alea_
- "Impact factor manipulation" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420794&c=1 … "Citing to win as journals 'game' system"
- "I am sick of impact factors and so is science"http:// occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/ …
- "Open access in research: catch up on the debate"http://www. guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/10/uk-open-access-research-debate-round-up …
- "What does an Editor look for?" http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/eicadvice.html (especially the end of the "The Analysis" section, on statisticians) "If you are lucky enough to find a statistician who can communicate with the non-numerate and is of the opposite sex, you should consider a proposal of marriage. It’s that important."
- [free ebook] Berger and Wolpert's "Likelihood Principle" (1984) http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215466210 …
- [free ebook] Brown's "Fundamentals of statistical exponential families with applications in statistical decision theory"http:// projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.lnms/1215466757 …
- "Noncomputability, unpredictability, undecidability, and unsolvability in economic theories" http://ideas.repec.org/p/trn/utwpas/1211.html … fromhttp:// w3.ualg.pt/~dgraca/Files/Papers/12-G-Finance.pdf …
- "Can we understand agent-based models?" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/08/can-we-understand-agent-based-models.html …
- "Economics of Antibiotics Resistance" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/2012/08/economics-of-antibiotics-resistance.html … and pdf paper http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/review/2012_7/12-21MR55.pdf …
- "Climate Change Is Here — And Worse Than We Thought" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-is-here--and-worse-than-we-thought/2012/08/03/6ae604c2-dd90-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?hpid=z3 … by NASA’s climatologist James Hansen
- ''Unpaid research internships reveal a dangerous hypocrisy in academia" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/02/unpaid-research-internships-academic-hypocrisy …
- "The college-cost calamity" (in the U.S.) http://www.economist.com/node/21559936
- "Putting A Price Tag On Your Descendants" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/20/157105414/episode-388-putting-a-price-tag-on-your-descendants … ("... the answer hinges on the discount rate")
- "Using Bayes’ Theorem in Behavioural Crime Linking of Serial Homicide" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02043.x/full … via @statfr
- "Negative rates as a precursor to the death of banking" http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/31/1102191/negative-rates-as-a-precursor-to-the-death-of-banking/ …
- "Retracted articles and unethical behavior in economics journals?" http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/15873/
- Forget Titanic: Women and children rarely first off sinking ships"http:// dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207156109 … "the crew has the highest survival rate"
- "Why Algebra Matters (and Why Andrew Hacker is Off-Target)"http:// dropoutnation.net/2012/07/30/why-algebra-matters-and-why-those-who-think-it-doesnt-are-wrong/ … , "Yes, algebra is necessary" http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/07/yes-algebra-is-necessary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nbspDanielWillingham-DanielWillinghamScienceAndEducationBlog+%28Daniel+Willingham%27s+Science+and+Education+Blog%29 …via @nb58, or "Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer" via @SciAmUpdate http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/30/abandoning-algebra-is-not-the-answer/ … answering tohttp://www."Is Algebra Necessary?" by Andrew Hacker nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?pagewanted=all …
- "Why do the markets love government debt?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/opinion/money-for-nothing.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general …
- "The more money, the merrier?" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528752.300-inequality-the-more-money-the-merrier.html …and "Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22071-inequality-why-egalitarian-societies-died-out.html …
- "Universités privées : la catastrophe" http://www.marianne2.fr/Universites-privees-la-catastrophe_a221675.html … sur les inégalités du système universitaire aux Etats-Unis
- "La mainmise des machines sur les marchés financiers en question" http://www.lepoint.fr/economie/la-mainmise-des-machines-sur-les-marches-financiers-en-question-11-08-2012-1495014_28.php …
- Chaine de Markov et jeux, le Monopoly http://eljjdx.canalblog.com/archives/2012/08/12/24832622.html … via @Vicnent
Le StatData Geek http://www.data-publica.com/content/2012/07/les-blogs-de-data-geeks-freakonometrics-ou-la-data-stat-modelisation/ … via @datapublica
- "Le mercato universitaire" http://www.lenouveleconomiste.fr/le-mercato-universitaire-15697/ …
- "Qu’attendre des Assises de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche ? Rien, ou pire encore ?" http://www.collectif-papera.org/spip.php?article1369 …
- "Comment la propriété intellectuelle a transformé les Jeux olympiques en cauchemar cyberpunk" http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/comment-la-propriete-intellectuelle-a-transforme-les-jeux-olympiques-en-cauchemar-cyberpunk/ …
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