Assorted links
2013 April 4
Some assorted links collected this week:
- A new interestingly looking book “Web Social Science” by Robert Ackland coming out in July 2013.
- In recent issue of Nature (Match 28): a special on the future of scientific publishing.
- An interesting TEDtalk by Colin Camerer on neuroscience and experimental economics
- Nice paper analyzing world email traffic, co-authored by Michael Macy. Another example of using ‘igraph’ package for network analysis.
- Gary King and Stuart Shieber on Open Access science and publishing.
There are discussions in various places about merits, pitfalls, and misunderstandings related to buzzwords “bigdata”, “data science” (what a useless term it is…) etc., analysis being “data-driven” or “evidence-based” etc. Perhaps I will make a separate post on that at some point… For now:
- “Let the Data Speak for themselves”, a guest post by Joseph Rickert on Revolutions blog
- Echoes and comments of Nate Silver’s acclaimed book “The Signal and the Noise”, for example:
- Matt Asay on readwrite (hat tip to Dominik Batorski), and here
- at NYT
- David Brooks at NYT
- Petr Keil on data-driven science
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