Picks
- An Experiment in Music and Crowd-Sourcing from Google Research Blog
- Avengers characters first appearances from FlowingData
- Beer with a confidence interval from The Endeavour
- Petterson takes home the EMC Data Science Global Hackathon Prize from No Free Hunch
- Titanic infographics from 1912 from FlowingData
- Video Stabilization on YouTube from Google Research Blog
- Visiting Puerto Rico from The Endeavour
- Which-hunting in uncomprehending darkness from Language Log
Other News
- Around the blogs in 80 hours, compressive sensing edition. from Nuit Blanche
- Geostatistics and the 500-mile email problem from Revolutions
- ICML 2012 - Final Call for Participation from datamining2 at Yahoo! Groups
- Is it well known that we need to redefine well known? from Computational Complexity
- Lines from Chemoton Vitorino Ramos' research notebook
- Linkage from An Ergodic Walk
- Models, assumptions, and data summaries from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Non-random MCMC from Radford Neal's blog
- Notes on graph data management from Monash Research Integrated Feed
- ProPPA: A Fast Algorithm for $\ell_1$ Minimization and Low-Rank Matrix Completion (implementation) from Nuit Blanche
- R, now a major programming language, sees a 127% growth in book sales from Revolutions
- Rediscovering Literacy from ribbonfarm
- SFFT: An implementation of the MIT Sparse FFT is now available from Nuit Blanche
- STOC Workshop: Algorithms for Distributed and Streaming Data from Untitled Feed
- Sports with a vague Operations Research connection from Michael Trick's Operations Research Blog
- Statistical mechanics of magnet balls from bit-player
- Superpixels for Python - pretty SLIC from Peekaboo
- The mathematics department at TU Munich cancels its subscriptions to Elsevier journals from Gowers's Weblog
