Is #ecology explaining less & less? http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/ecology-explaining-less-and-less Over 100yr & 18k papers: more #pvalues but falling <r2>. What’s P for this trend?
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Is ecology explaining less and less?
September 15, 2014Belles lettres Meets Big Data » American Scientist
July 5, 2014Belles lettres Meets #BigData
https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/4/belles-lettres-meets-big-data/1 #Statistical analysis of literature pre-dating recent advent of digital #humanities
Data Science and Prediction | December 2013 | Communications of the ACM
June 2, 2014#DataScience & Prediction: Nice overview of the field, emphasizing testable models, even when causation isn’t implied
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/12/169933-data-science-and-prediction/fulltext
Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data – NYTimes.com
April 14, 20148 Problems With #BigData: correlation v causation, multiple testing, garbage in & out, gaming system, sample bias…
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/opinion/eight-no-nine-problems-with-big-data.html
Bring on the box plots : Methagora
April 1, 2014Bring on the box plots: Nature advocates these over bar #plots, solicits & then publishes an R #tool to create them
http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2014/01/bring-on-the-box-plots-boxplotr.html
The Best Season to Get Pregnant | Science/AAAS | News
December 21, 2013Best Season to Get #Pregnant: not May. Unfortunately, winter babies will suffer more #healthproblems!
http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/07/best-season-get-pregnant
QT:{{”
We’ve known for a long
time that summer babies are healthier than winter babies but not the why. …
Right. And these are babies that are born in the summer versus those that are born in the
winter. There’s been this correlation that’s been around for a long time. Scientists have
seen that children that are born in the winter tend to have more health problems later in
life. They tend to be slower growers, have higher incidences of mental illness, and even
early death.
“}}
Around 12 July interesting discussion of correlation between the months of ones birth and later
health problems. Winter born children are more susceptible to health problems. The theory
proposed is that this has to due with flu and the shortening and premature birth.
Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire? – Emerging Europe Real Time – WSJ
October 17, 2013Who Wants to Be a Russian #Billionaire? Has great #stats:
~100K people worth >$50M. Half live in US.
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire via @changeist
QT:”
Russia: 35% of the country’s entire wealth now in the hands of just 110 people….
…
Credit Suisse estimates that worldwide there are 98,700 “ultra-high net worth individuals,” or people worth $50 million or more. Almost half of them live in the United States.
”
Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire?
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire
NYer: The Order of Things… & illustrations of how it changes with different weightings
August 3, 2013What College Rankings Really Tell Us : The New Yorker
THE ORDER OF THINGS
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell
This is a very interesting article that illustrates the importance of considering the weighting various of features. It gives some very concrete examples of how one can get very different rankings by picking weights. All of this is in a sense obvious but it is nice to see spelled out with regard to school rankings.
Web Exclusive: Quantum Weirdness? It’s All in Your Mind: Scientific American
June 15, 2013QM QBism v Copenhagen. Is Bayesian Belief better explaining
Schrodinger’s Cat than superimposed dead & alive states?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wave-function
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