Stadtbilder. Mapping the digital shape of cities. Moritz Stefaner, 2013
▻http://stadt-bilder.com
Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities.
While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is alive.
http://stadt-bilder.com/img/stadtbilder_Berlin.png
Berlin
This map shows the density of
3024 food,
654 nightlife,
590 shopping, and
128 music
locations in Berlin.
Changing minds on a changing climate - Yale Climate Connections
▻http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/04/changing-minds-on-a-changing-climate
Allow me my own bit of parting advice: be nice. None of the commenters lauded the effectiveness of flaming arguments, shaming, or condescending treatment. Letting go of a long-held belief is hard. We can support people and give them rational, relatable reasons to appreciate the science of climate change.
The Stunning Early Infographics and Maps of the 1800s - Atlas Obscura
▻http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-stunning-early-infographics-and-maps-of-the-1800s
https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvYXNzZXRzL2Q5Y2IyMzM0YWEyZDhlODA4MF8wODQ4MDA3LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIjYwMHg-Il1d/0848007.jpg 
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/39317/image.jpg
Apéro #d3.js jeudi 20 avril à La Gaîté lyrique, Paris, 18h
Pour y aller :
▻https://gaite-lyrique.net/infos
il y aura notamment Ian Johnson l’auteur de ▻http://blockbuilder.org et @maliciarogue l’autrice de “Practical D3.js”
#Sondage Prenez 2 minutes pour aider Lucie à faire son devoir de maths ▻https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezQZmktTrR3HlpoiOghJkYna5umqzmFiZCtQlqe6O3JYh0Dg/viewform
Looking Into Pandora’s Box: The Content Of #Sci-Hub And Its Usage - by Bastian Greshake | bioRxiv
▻http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/10/124495
#datasources #recherche #partage #piratage #elsevier #open-access
Machine Learning & Big Data : des dangers pour les logiciels libres ?, par Vincent Jousse
▻http://vincent.jousse.org/blog/les-dangers-du-big-data-pour-les-logiciels-libres
http://vincent.jousse.org/images/schema_dev_opensource_donnees.png
le nerf de la guerre, c’est maintenant les données. C’est très vrai pour les entreprises, ça l’est encore plus pour le monde du #logiciel_libre. Les entreprises peuvent mettre les moyens, le monde du logiciel libre beaucoup moins. (…)
Peut-être pourrions-nous créer ce que Framasoft est pour le #logiciel, mais pour les #données : une association/organisation qui s’assure que le monde du libre propose une alternative aux géants qui ont l’argent pour avoir des données à ne plus savoir qu’en faire. Aller plus loin que ce qui se fait sur l’#OpenData en France actuellement en créant de la donnée à destination des systèmes d’#apprentissage_automatique.
Fairytale Prisoner by Choice : The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump, by Kate Imbach
▻https://medium.com/@kate8/fairytale-prisoner-by-choice-the-photographic-eye-of-melania-trump-f1f7b97ff
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*akKBducv_Ii6_eDmvL4YVA.jpeg
She’s hiding. She needs to hide so badly that she doesn’t care about anything else. Not her country, not how bad she looks, not the money it costs us. She has no shame because, for her, hiding is shameless. It is safe.
She lives behind glass, in cars, in her house, on private planes and private resorts. She doesn’t even get out of the car to see landmarks or walk in the park. She is never among the public, not for a second.
Melania Trump is the woman least fit for public service in the entirety of the United States of America. We should expect nothing from her.
Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams – data science ish
▻http://juliasilge.com/blog/Gender-Pronouns
let’s just look for bigrams that start with “she” and “he”. We will get some adverbs and modifiers and such as the second word in the bigram, but mostly verbs, the main thing we are interested in.
http://juliasilge.com/figs/2017-04-15-Gender-Pronouns/austen-1.png
Françoise Vergès : « Les féministes blanches n’ont pas intégré dans leur histoire les avortements forcés de la Réunion » - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2017/04/14/francoise-verges-les-feministes-blanches-n-ont-pas-integre-dans-leur-hist
http://md1.libe.com/photo/1013094-francoisevergesjpg.jpg
Un procès s’ouvre en 1971. Trente femmes ont porté plainte et viennent témoigner : elles sont noires. Les médecins sont en majorité des hommes blancs venus de France, un seul est d’origine marocaine. La fraude à la Sécurité sociale ne sera jamais évoquée : la direction locale refusera de porter plainte. Les médecins ne seront pas condamnés, sauf le professionnel d’origine marocaine, interdit de pratiquer et condamné à payer une amende, ainsi que l’infirmier-chef réunionnais, d’origine indienne. Les femmes ne recevront aucune réparation.
Il gagne un voyage dans l’espace mais ne peut pas circuler librement sur Terre · Global Voices en Français
▻https://fr.globalvoices.org/2017/04/13/208838
https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/HussienManawer2-800x450.jpg
Hussain Manawer se fait si souvent arrêter qu’il pense être maudit. Il a été interrogé dans bon nombre d’aéroports, de Los Angeles à la Macédoine, mais plaisante qu’on ne l’arrête plus maintenant qu’il est connu de tous.
Brazil’s response to a huge yellow fever outbreak: Kill the monkeys - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/15/brazils-response-to-a-huge-yellow-fever-outbreak-kill-the-monkeys
http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2017/04/GettyImages-171797602b.jpg
But, contrary to local lore, these primates don’t transmit the disease. In fact, they play a crucial role in preventing its spread. A dead monkey is often the first sign yellow fever has reached a new town, which can serve as an alarm bell for authorities directing vaccination campaigns. It’s a warning sign that allows health officials to monitor the disease before it hits humans.
Let’s draw a coastline – Fantasy Maps for fun and glory
▻https://azgaar.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/lets-draw-a-coastline
https://azgaar.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/curvebasis-interpolated-all-masked.png
We already got scalable Voronoi graph and heightmap on it. The next step is to draw a coastline that will make the border between water a land masses clearer.
Machine Bias
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/492648
▻http://community.globaleditorsnetwork.org/content/machine-bias-0
Few ProPublica projects have had as much influence as our work on algorithms. Our coverage has resulted in a court ruling, company policy change and, perhaps most fundamentally, has helped spur a national discussion about the need for fairness in algorithms. Surveying the breadth of our work on what he rightly called “algorithmic accountability,” Columbia University Journalism School Dean Steve Coll wrote the following: “These sorts of investigations show journalists applying the math, statistics, and data science knowledge necessary to investigate contemporary hard targets.
(figure parmi les finalistes de ce concours de #data_visualisation ▻http://community.globaleditorsnetwork.org/projects_by_event/2557)
Pharmaceutical giant ’plotted to destroy cancer drugs to drive prices up 4,000%’ | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/drug-giant-aspen-plot-destroy-cancer-medicine-big-pharma-times-invest
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/04/14/10/drug-production.jpg
After purchasing five different cancer drugs from British firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the company tried to sell the medicines in Europe for up to 40 times their previous price, reported The Times.
(…) The other four drugs, including Leukeran, also used by leukaemia patients, and melphalan (trade name Alkeran), for skin and ovarian cancers, also became up to four times more expensive.
(...) In a confidential email published by The Times, an Aspen employee appeared to write: “We’ve signed new reimbursement and price agreement successfully: price increases are basically on line with European target prices (Leukeran, a bit higher!)... Let’s celebrate!”
When bargaining over drug prices in Spain, the pharmaceutical giant is said to have threatened to stop selling the cancer treatments unless the health minister agreed to price rises of up to 4,000 per cent, reported Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial Digital at the time.
Now another leaked email appears to reveal that staff at Aspen discussed destroying their supplies of the drug in the row.
Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic : Nature : Nature Research
▻http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22040.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170413&spMailingID=53838452&spUserID=MjI3
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/carousel/nature22040-sf2.jpg
Virus dispersal between administrative regions estimated using the GLM phylogeography model (see Methods). The arcs are between population centroids of each region, show directionality from the thin end to the thick end and are coloured…
Breast Milk is Exported to the US | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/04/breast-milk-is-exported-to-the-us
They have no front door. Privacy is a sheet of cloth drawn across an opening. A gas burner on the ground. A saucepan with leftover porridge.
“It’s been three months. Since I started”, Check Srey-Toy tells Arbetet Global. “It’s an easy job. All I need to do is lie there and the machine pumps it out”.
As the Cambodian capital city falls into darkness, some glimpses of light shine through the makeshift wall of plastic and wood out to the alley-ways among the ramshackle sheds of Stoeng Mean Chey, one of Phnom Penh’s poorest slums. Dark figures move along, shuffling past, following the stench filled pathways covered with ripped plastic bags and other litter.
This used to be a garbage dump. Then bulldozers covered the garbage and poisonous soil, creating a housing market for ramshackle sheds at ten dollars per month. For an extra 15 dollars, electricity is provided.
Check Srey-Toy and her husband used to make their daily income by picking plastics, aluminium cans and paper from the city streets. They assorted their rewards and sold it to a recycling centre. A few months ago a new opportunity arose as two women approached them.
http://cdn.ipsnews.net/Library/2017/04/Check-Srey-Toy-_2_.jpg
Check Srey-Toy was selling her breast milk during three months. She was paid 5 dollar a day. Photo: Daniel Quinan
#macOS - How to reclaim all/most free space from a #sparsebundle
▻https://serverfault.com/questions/14112/how-to-reclaim-all-most-free-space-from-a-sparsebundle-on-os-x
hdiutil compact image.sparsebundle
utile quand on vient de fairetmutil delete /Volumes/Backup………/2016*
New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications | NASA
▻https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/new-night-lights-maps-open-up-possible-real-time-applications
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/blackmarble2016-1500px_0.jpg 
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/blackmarble_2016_americas_composite.png?itok=9OuXCBd8
#black_marble #cartographie #lulmière #énergie #implantation_humaine #NASA
A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer
▻http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~mblaauw/IS2017_NPSS
Musique :
▻http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~mblaauw/IS2017_NPSS/files/f2_npss_power_ultimo_bgm_fx.mp3
le fichier ci-dessous ne contient que la voix de synthèse (on entend quelques blips):
▻http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~mblaauw/IS2017_NPSS/files/f2_npss_multi_ultimo_dry.mp3
le papier des chercheurs de l’uni Pompeu Fabra (Barcelone): ▻https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03809.pdf
#machine_learning #robot #synthèse_vocale #chant @intempestive
Rendez-vous à Positano | Goliarda Sapienza
▻https://le-tripode.net/livre/goliarda-sapienza/rendez-vous-a-positano
https://le-tripode.net/media/couvertures/rendez-vous-a-positano_eTCz19W#.jpg
Rendez-vous à Positano est un #roman d’amour, un texte dédié à une femme et un lieu. Dans l’après-guerre, Goliarda Sapienza découvre un modeste village hors du temps, niché tout près de Naples : Positano. Elle y fait la connaissance d’Erica, une jeune femme qui allait devenir pendant près d’une vingtaine d’années une soeur d’âme. Longtemps après la disparition de son amie, en 1985, l’écrivaine décide de revenir sur cette histoire pour sauver de l’oubli ce qui fut balayé par le destin.
Welcome to Lagos — Chibundu Onuzo
▻https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/18/welcome-to-lagos-by-chibundu-onuzo-review
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2ee8c1c9e2e88b93fc467d4b68efa5973e5fdc6f/0_324_960_576/master/960.jpg?w=1200&h=630&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&bm=normal&ba=bottom%2Cleft&blend64=aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxvYWRzLmd1aW0uY28udWsvMjAxNi8wNS8yNS9vdmVybGF5LWxvZ28tMTIwMC05MF9vcHQucG5n&s=f6e03745d9fd205807f7064fc3b3a466
The Lagos novel has become a genre in itself, with an outstanding list of practitioners: Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Wole Soyinka, Sefi Atta, Ben Okri, Teju Cole ... It is almost a rite of passage for Nigerian authors, for Lagos is #Nigeria in microcosm, and there is no understanding the country without understanding the city. With her new book, Chibundu Onuzo (right) appears to be seeking to redefine the genre.
(…) “#Lagos is no different from anywhere, except there are more people, and more noise, and more.”
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61poVLVXXiL._SX308_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry | The Nation
▻https://www.thenation.com/article/five-corporations-now-dominate-our-privatized-intelligence-industry
five corporations that together employ nearly 80 percent of the private-sector employees contracted to work for US spy and surveillance agencies.
(…) For the first time since spy agencies began outsourcing their core analytic and operational work in the late 1990s, the bulk of the contracted work goes to a handful of companies: #Leidos, #Booz_Allen_Hamilton, #CSRA, #SAIC, and #CACI_International. This concentration of “pure plays”—a Wall Street term for companies that makes one product for a single market—marks a fundamental shift in an industry that was once a highly diverse mix of large military contractors, small and medium technology companies, and tiny “Beltway Bandits” surrounding Washington, D.C.
As I argue below, these developments are incredibly risky for a country more dependent than ever on intelligence to fight global wars and prevent domestic attacks.
Dans le laboratoire de la « fake science » - Le Temps
▻https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/2017/04/07/laboratoire-fake-science
https://assets.letemps.ch/sites/default/files/media/2017/04/07/file6udddjv0c20jp8gqikz.jpg
« La version scientifique de l’alt-right »
Depuis 2010, Emil Kirkegaard utilise ainsi ses compétences pour analyser toutes les données qu’il trouve en ligne afin de prouver scientifiquement une supposée hiérarchie génétique entre les humains. Avec les Occidentaux et Asiatiques en haut de la pyramide, Africains et Roms en bas. « Il est la version scientifique de l’alt-right, cette mouvance américaine d’extrême droite suprématiste »
(…) Le Danois publie ses travaux sur Google Scholar, portail censé être réservé aux universitaires et permettre une circulation ouverte des connaissances. Interrogé par « Le Temps » sur la présence d’articles à telles consonances sur sa plateforme, Google répond que s’il y avait un problème, son système d’alerte l’aurait repéré.