Assorted Links

1. Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy to Efficiency
   
   
2. Fuck Nuance, a manifesto for more bold social theories, by Kieran Healy (via Analise Real)
   
   
3. Machine Learning Classes at Oxford (videos, presentation and code)
   
   
4. 2015 Ig Nobel prizes: a study shows that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time to urinate (about 21 seconds)
   
   
5. There is a Space Syntax Toolkit for QGIS (ht Renato Saboya, who runs a great blog about urbanism written in Portuguese: Urbanidades)
   
   
6. 10 things you need to know about the Magna Carta
   
   
7. Slum tourism and its discontents. Not exactly a new article but a good summary of arguments (ht Fabiana Freitas, my lovely partner)
   
   
8. The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya [unagated paper]
   
   
9. The Human Mortality Explorer. Visualizing Death across Time and Space via (Bernardo Queiroz)