The Best Color for a Database and More Data Links of the Week

Once again, interesting posts and articles here and there...

• [RIP] doctorow‘s obit for Aaron Swartz: http://boingboing.net/…
• “what color do you want your database ?” http://dilbert.com/…

• University “Reputation [based on research] is more important than teaching quality or price of courses” http://guardian.co.uk/ …
•  ”Josh Angrist’s meticulous ­methods have influenced scholars for two decades” http://www.technologyreview.com/… nice portrait in MIT News via TimHarford
• “Exploratory analysis of actuarial pricing data using R” on Chibisi’s blog http://sites.google.com/site/activeanalyticsgbbo00/… (new blog on R and insurance)
• “Where are university websites hiding all their research?” http://www.guardian.co.uk… via GdnHigherEd
• [free ebook] “Breaking the Law of Averages: Real-Life Probability and Statistics” http://wmbriggs.com/… by mattstat
• “2012 was the hottest U.S. year on record” http://washingtonpost.com/…

• “One of the sources of risk in big banks that does not get the attention it deserves is information systems” http://nakedcapitalism.com/… via rszbt
• “maps and colors” http://freac.fsu.edu/…
• “Understanding risk aversion in financial markets” http://newyorkfed.org/… via http://econbrowser.com/…
• “Science should be on the journalism curriculum”http://guardian.co.uk/… via guardianscience andSciencePunk
• “The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck” http://motherjones.com/… by chriscmooney
• “Why do people think economists are charlatans?” on Noahpinion‘s blog http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/…
• “Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?” http://theatlantic.com/ … see also http://slate.com/…
• “Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars” http://guardian.co.uk/… viaTimHarford

• “2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S.” http://nytimes.com/… via nytimesscience
• Big data, “Crunching the numbers” http://economist.com/21554743 “Banks know a lot about their customers…”
• [free ebook] “Elements of Statistical Learning” by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman http://stanford.edu/~hastie/… (see also http://-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/… )
• Geeks and politics http://geekpolitics.be/  via NicolasLoubet
• “dumb financial journalism, dumb corporate management, dumb financial regulation…” http://ftalphaville.ft.com/…
• “Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers” http://imf.org/… with “strong errors, both statistically and economically”
• “Health Care Spending by Age and Country” http://theincidentaleconomist.com/…
• “Planetary disasters: It could happen one night” http://nature.com/… on time uncertainty of future catastrophes
• [free ebook] “S Poetry” by Patrick J. Burns (for S and R users) http://burns-stat.com/…
• “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth” http://adweek.com/…
• We are “181,000 Social Media ‘Gurus,’ ‘Ninjas,’ ‘Masters,’ and ‘Mavens’ on Twitter” http://adage.com/… via data_nerd
• “The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World” http://flavorwire.com/…
• “Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics” http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/… via http://marginalrevolution.com/…
• Long-Term Growth in Students’ Mathematics Achievement: The Unique Contributions of Motivation and Cognitive Strategies” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
• “What journalists can learn from scientists and the scientific method” http://poynter.org/latest-news/… by mthomps via timoreilly
• “Data scientists matter because data science is the future of IT”http://gigaom.com/ … via data_nerd and msgbi
• “The End of Economists’ Imperialism” http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/…via mims
• “Banks win more flexible Basel rules” http://ft.com/cms/… via LeMondeEcoEnt
• Markus Gesmann’s post on “Bridget Riley exhibition in London” http://lamages.blogspot.ca/… see also http://r-de-jeu.blogspot.ca/…
• “English Letter Frequency Counts” http://norvig.com/mayzner
• “Measures of Segregation” http://insidehighered.com/ …
• “A fatal gap between science and policy?” http://scidev.net/… see also http://lwec.org.uk/sites/…
• “The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future” http://web.mit.edu/…
• “Science, politics, mathematics and finance” http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/… following http://newstatesman.com/…
• “What your statistical software says about you” http://seanjtaylor.com/… via younesb91
• «Evidence of declining literacy among Canadian university graduates» http://heqco.ca/en-CA/blog/… via IanikMarcil from http://.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/…
• “The wonderful thing about forecasts is that they all sound very profound” http://timharford.com/ … on timharford‘s blog
• “What’s the use of economics?” http://voxeu.org/…
• January 1st? http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/… ”the deadliest day for pedestrians” via http://.washingtonpost.com/…
• “On Chomsky and the two cultures of Statistical Learning”http://norvig.com/…  via albertocairo and jgibaja
• Advice for potential academic bloggers” http://mainlymacro.blogspot.ca/…
• “Statistics in a world where nothing is random” http://andrewgelman.com/… on StatModeling‘s blog
• “Academic new-year resolutions: email” http://jpehs.co.uk/… via eeleach and danielcolquitt a
• [photography] “Convergence. Philadelphia, PA. 2011.” via http://photographersdirectory.tumblr.com/…