Reading for BD2k Module


TECHNICAL PAPERS


1. Biclustering 

Finding Large Average Submatrices in high dimensional data, A.A. Shabalin, V.J. Weigman, C.M. Perou and A.B. Nobel, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2009.

http://www.unc.edu/~nobel/nobel/links/Papers/LASpaperP.pdf


2. Community detection

A testing based extraction algorithm for identifying significant communities in networks, J.D. Wilson, S. Wang, P.J. Mucha, S. Bhamidi, and A.B. Nobel, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2014.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0777


3. Correlation Mining

A testing-based approach to the discovery of differentially correlated variable sets, K. Bodwin, K. Zhang, and A.B. Nobel.  Submitted.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08124



REPRODUCIBILITY

These articles discuss the reproducibility (really the lack of reproducibility) of scientific research.    


How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop (Nature)

http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-fool-themselves-and-how-they-can-stop-1.18517


Science Isn't Broken (FiveThirtyEight.com)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/#part1


The Truth Wears Off (The New Yorker)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off



NETWORKS

These articles describe some interesting, but counter-intuitive, aspects of ordinary networks, and their practical uses.


A quick puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking (Washington Post) 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/majority-illusion/


Friends You Can Count On (NY Times)

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/friends-you-can-count-on/?_r=0


‘Friendship Paradox’ Helps Predict Spread of Flu (Harvard Medical School News)

http://hms.harvard.edu/news/friendship-paradox-helps-predict-spread-flu-9-15-10




DATA DISPLAY

Two excerpts from the influential books ``The Visual Display of Quantitative Information’’ and ``Envisioning Information’’, by Edward Tufte.  Good reading, with plenty of insights about good (and bad) ways to display information.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00040Z