Freakonometrics

Some interesting posts, this week, 

• "Analysis of variance? Why it is more important than ever" http://arxiv.org/0504499 …
• "Martin Shubik's Dollar Auction Game"http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/martin-shubiks-dollar-auction-game.html … see also http://www.johnkay.com/kipling%E2%80%99s-game-theory-lessons-for-greece …
• Témoignage en faveur des logiciels libres http://www.framablog.org/post/2012/11/26/un-coeur-gros-comme-ca … "Quand l'accès au code source est une question vitale..." Troublant
• "Leaning tower illusion" http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Fred/KingdomYoonessiGheorghiu_2007.pdf … (yes, pictures are identical... amazing)

• "Is The Market Rational? No, say the experts. But neither are you--so don't go thinking you can outsmart it"http:// money.cnn.com/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/12/09/333473/index.htm … (Dec 2002)
• "The Relevance of Algorithms" http://www.tarletongillespie.org/Gillespie%20-%20The%20Relevance%20of%20Algorithms.pdf …
• "Why do older players commit more technical fouls in basketball? (model this)" http://marginalrevolution.com/mtion/2012/11/why-do-older-players-commit-more-technical-fouls-in-basketball-model-this.html …
• "Don’t Ask? Internet Still Tells" http://www.nytimes.com/technology/in-search-engine-results-a-peek-at-what-we-wonder.html?ref=technology&_r=1&&pagewanted=all …
• “In the coming decades, [NYC] will most likely face more rapidly rising sea levels and warmer temperatures, ..."http://www. nytimes.com/opinion/sunday/is-this-the-end.html?_r=0 …
• "What I tell patients is, if you like coffee, go ahead and drink as much as you want and can" http://www.theatlantic.com/health… good to know !
• "The Epistemology of Plagiarism"http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/the-epistemology-of-plagiarism.html …
• "A Visual History of Nobel Prizes and Notable Laureates, 1901-2012" http://www.brainpickings.org/i/11/29/giorgia-lupi-noble-prizes-visualization/ …
• [ebook] David Aldous's "On Chance and Unpredictability" http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/orld/draft_book.pdf … 
• "Should you enter the academic blogosphere?" by @qui_oui (a few weeks ago) http://www.universityaffairs.ca/should… 
• "that's the problem with randomness", via http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Rand… ("you can never be sure")

• [ebook] "Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra" by Carl Meyer, http://www.matrixanalysis.com/Drs.html …
• "Lack of Humility and Fear of Public Misunderstandings Led to Fukushima Accident" http://news.sciencemag.org/sci…
• "Politics and statistics" http://www.economist.com/democracyinamerica/2012/11/politics-and-statistics … "March of the nerds"
• "Don't rely on economic analysis to learn about human rationality"http://www. theeuropean-magazine.com/barry/875-human-irrationality-2#875 …
• "On proof and progress in mathematics" by Willian P. Thurston http://goo.gl/FPFdK  via @stevenstrogatz
• "Disaster Economics" by James Surowiecki http://www.newyorker.com/financial/2012/12/03/121203ta_talk_surowiecki …
• "Chinese typewriter anticipated predictive text"http:// news.stanford.edu/news/2012/november/chinese-typewriter-historian-112812.html … see http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v053/53.4.mullaney.pdf … for the academic version
• "accurate numbers aren't any more useful than the ones you make up" http://dilbert.com/fast/ …

• "The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density" http://davetroy.com/the-real-republican-adversary-population-density … on @davetroy's blog ("fueled by randomness", awesome title for a blog)
• "One-sided science reporting" on scientists talking silly things http://gropingtobethlehem.wordpress.com/one-sided-science-reporting/ … via @zentree
• "As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price" http://www.nytimes.com/how-local-taxpayers-bankroll-corporations.html?hp&_r=0…
• "Vis ma vie d’enseignant chercheur en France" http://www.liberation.fr/so1/25/vis-ma-vie-d-enseignant-chercheur-en-france_862900 …
• [ebook] "L'épistémiologie des modèles et de la modélisation" http://mlikahamdi.unblog.fr/filen3-al-mukhatabat-journal.pdf … (avec une relecture de Cournot et Lacan par Nicolas Bouleau, p178)
• "Obsolescence programmée et asymétrie d’information" via @obouba @pareto35http:// rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/obsolescence-programmee-et-asymetrie-dinformation/ …
• wrong data? http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Wro0Data …

• "Egalitarian airlines" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/woradian_initi/2012/12/egalitarian-air-lines.html … by @franceswoolley
• "Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook" https://medium.com/i7a17de … by @mathowie (clearly more tolerant than I am) via @clairebrooks
• "The holiday is good for the economy during a recession. In more normal conditions, it is a troublesome waste of money"http://www. ft.com/ie911330-38f7-11e2-981c-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links/rss/arts_columnists_timharford/feed//product#axzz2Dn9kQcXA …
• "High-Frequency Trading and High Returns" http://baselinescenario.com/high-frequency-trading-and-high-returns/ …
• "Can social media strengthen science?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/11/30/can-social-media-strengthen-science-a-panel-discussion/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social … by @matthewherper via @Jewels_2626 watch panel discussion

• "Do you need a university job to call yourself an academic?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-ed...on-network/blog/2012/nov/19/secret-academic-life-outside-academia 
• « Cessons d'imiter le modèle de Harvard et redéfinissons le "code génétique" de nos univer­sités » http://www.lactualite.com/depasse-le-modele-harvard …
• "Twenty-first-century projections of North Atlantic tropical storms from CMIP5 models" http://www.nature.com/nclial/v2/n8/full/nclimate1530.html …
• "Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions" http://www.sciencemag.org/cont11/1225.abstract …
• "The Concept of the University"http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/the-concept-of-university.html …
• "soaring flood insurance rates and heightened standards for rebuilding (...) a luxury only the wealthy can afford"http://www. nytimes.com/ny...egion/cost-of-coastal-living-to-climb-under-new-flood-rules.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121129 
• Flood insurance http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pubeview/2006_6/46_55mr30.pdf … "Lack of information on the true likelihood ... might still lead property owners to make bad decisions"
• 911 in L.A. "How fast is LAFD where you live?" on http://datadesk.latimes.com
• "Still think you can beat the market?" http://timharford.com/still-think-you-can-beat-the-market/ …on @TimHarford's blog
• "How many PhD's does it take to get a Powerpoint presentation to work?" http://www.phdcomics.com/com... via @phdcomics

• "Mandelbrot's life is a heroic story of discovery (...) however, he could be a difficult man" http://online.wsj.com/a… via @pickover 
• "Dropping the Ball on Financial Regulation" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2dropping-the-ball-on-financial-regulation/ 
• "Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase" http://www.wired.com/w012/11/recent-human-evolution-2/ … see also http://www.nature.com/natu…
• "How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic" http://www.slate.com/news…
• "Three Brief Proofs of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/d1123-r3.pdf …
• "The Autism Advantage" http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/the-autism-advantage.html?hpw&_r=1&pagewanted=all& … "how autistic workers are being drawn into the modern economy" see alsohttp:// papers.ssrn.com/fm?abstract_id=1975809 …
• "Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics..." http://www.newyorker.com/culture/2012/08/a-mathematician-goes-to-the-beach.html#ixzz2DfSVv6qG … an old post by @culturedesk
• "L’opinion publique n’existe pas" sur http://www.acrimed.org/3938… par Pierre Bourdieu, via @IanikMarcil (un texte à relire sans modération)
• "The Changing Goals of Data Visualization"http:// eagereyes.org/cchanging-goals-data-visualization …
• "Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload"http:// papers.ssrn.com/fm?abstract_id=2176246 …
• "Vers une fiscalité des données" http://owni.fr/2012/11/28/vers-une-fiscalite-des-donnees/ … "plus (on) ouvre ses données aux utilisateurs, moins (on) est taxée" par @FradiFrad
• "The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data" http://simplystatistics.org/the-statisticians-at-fox-news-use-classic-and-novel-graphical-techniques-to-lead-with-data/ …