Daily Data Dump - Monday

Hope you had a good weekend! Winter is not quite coming...but summer is ending. Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography. Some original data analysis in this post! Turns out that phoneme segment length is positively correlated with population density. Too often culture is viewed as something we can only have a qualitative understanding of, but these sorts of analyses show that there are ways to get a quantitative grasp of the sea of memes (if this post was of interest, see the blog Replicated Typo). Why Isn't the Missing Heritability Nearly Neutral and Tightly Networked?. Interesting idea that we're missing causal variants because of selection bias on the set of SNPs which current gene chips detect. The past 10 years have been awesome in genomics, but what's going to happen when whole genome sequencing becomes the norm? Bring Your Genes to Your Life Insurance Sales Representative. Brad DeLong makes the argument ...