Archive for March, 2014

Statistics and the hot hand

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

The hot hand might be real after all: But streaking shooters only 1-2% more likely than #random to make next basket
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/09/the-hot-hand-might-real-after-all/N8V34bGLWhPqk0Sx9yoHWI/story.html

Visualizing Which Countries People Are Trying To Get Away From, And Where They’re Going | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028211/visualized/visualizing-which-countries-people-are-trying-to-get-away-from-and-where-theyre-g

How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA’s Surveillance Nightmare | Threat Level | Wired.com

Friday, March 28th, 2014

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/how-huawei-became-nsa-nightmare/?mbid=social_twitter

GigaDB Dataset – DOI 10.5524/100034 – Hepatocellular carcinoma genomic data from the Asia Cancer Research Group.

Friday, March 28th, 2014

Looks like 88 freely available liver cancer genome datasets
http://gigadb.org/dataset/100034

JCBDataViewer – a TEM image of a 5 dpf zebrafish embryo sagittal section

Friday, March 28th, 2014

@notjustmoore : #ksbigdata : see http://j.mp/gigafish-jcb if you want to click into the 281 gigapixel zebrafish.

http://v.jcb-dataviewer.glencoesoftware.com/webclient/img_detail/201/

Microsoft to Offer Office for iPad, Maybe a Bit Late – NYTimes.com

Friday, March 28th, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/technology/microsofts-office-suite-for-ipad.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Predicting Social Security numbers from public data

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

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Such findings highlight the hidden privacy costs of widespread information dissemination and the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies (11), underscoring the role of public records as breeder documents (12) of more sensitive data.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975.full

The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.summary

GigaScience | Full text | The rise of a digital immune system

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/1/1/4

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science – NYTimes.com

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

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In 2010, Mr. Gates, along with his wife, Melinda, and the investor Warren E. Buffett, announced the campaign. So far, roughly a fifth of America’s nearly 500 billionaires have signed up, pledging to donate the majority of their fortunes to charity.

A Times analysis of the pledge letters made public shows that more than 40 percent of the signers plan to finance studies in science, health and the environment. With personal fortunes in excess of $250 billion, they are promising, at a minimum, to donate more than $125 billion. How much is destined for science is unclear, but several laid out objectives that are fairly extraordinary.
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Billionaires… Are Privatizing… Science. 20% of 500 US
#billionaires signed giving pledge & 40% to science =>$125B
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html