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<p>by Joseph Rickert</p>
<p>Here we offer ephemera, a little light reading and some more challenging material. We hope that least some of it will become the “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton">talk of the town</a>”.</p>
<h2>Worth Reading</h2>
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<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.askaswiss.com/2016/10/highlights-msdse-2016.html">Highlights</a> from the Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments Summit</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://fortune.com/2016/10/12/artificial-intelligence-jobs/">How Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Some Jobs But Create Others</a>: A sober but optimistic view on the impact of AI</li>
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<h2>Worth a Look</h2>
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<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMC138BNpQY">Causality for medical statistics</a> by David Cox: A 83-minute lecture by the master</li>
<li>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://flowingdata.com/2016/11/02/two-centuries-of-population-animated/">visual history</a> of population growth in the US from Flowing Data</li>
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<h2>R Resources</h2>
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<li>A Free <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.quandl.com/quandl-data-using-r-online-tutorial">Tutorial</a> for using Quandl with R</li>
<li>A SAS to R <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/Notebook/SAS-to-R-Tutorial-Part-1-1">Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://leanpub.com/msdr">Mastering Software Development in R</a>, by Peng and Kross: A solid introduction to R, well worth purchasing</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2016/11/some-vtreat-design-principles/">Some vtreat Design Principles</a>: A look at the ideas behind statistically sound data preparation</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.r-graph-gallery.com/">The R Graph Gallery</a>: a great resource and place to go for inspiration</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-r-packages-and-education-to-scale-data-science-at-airbnb-906faa58e12d#.7mdu3xv0j">Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb</a>: a case study</li>
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