Rise of the Data Scientist
As we've all read by now, Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians. Obviously, I whole-heartedly…
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Zum Kuckuck, a design group in Germany, visualizes data interchange and network traffic with Processing in this beautifully executed installation. On behalf and under the creative management of the Atelier…
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Who’s Going to Win Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest?
It's July 4 this weekend. You know what that means, right? It's Independence Day, and really, there's no better way to celebrate than to stuff down as many hot… -
Contrary to what a lot people might think they know from the movies, the X-Men universe stretches out quite a ways with lots of characters and lots of relationships. This…
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Manolith, in collaboration with InfoShots, tells the story of Twitter. The graphic starts at Twitter's humble beginnings and ends at present day where you pretty much can't go a day…
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Workshop: Visualization on the Web – Join Me at VisWeek
Visualization on the Web is growing, but a lot of the really good stuff is just sitting around on someone's computer. So to get a discussion going about how we… -
Review: RoamBi, Seeing Your Data on the iPhone
This is a guest review by Peter Robinet of Bubble Foundry, a web design company that specializes in building websites for Web startups. What It Is RoamBi is a free… -
Say what you want about Michael Jackson, but there's no denying the great effect he had on the music world. In honor of the pop king's passing, practically half of…
Michael Jackson Billboard Rankings: the Man, the Legend -
Friday Freebies: 1,000 Business Cards from AllBusinessCards
The folks over at AllBusinessCards have generously donated 1,000 business cards to three lucky FlowingData readers. Uh, read that as three FlowingData readers will each win a set of 1,000… -
Quick Links for the Weekend – 26 June 09
Tufte's Invisible Yet Ubiquitous Influence - Edward Tufte combines a policy wonk's love of data with an artist's eye for beauty and a PR maestro's knack for promotion. Look at… -
Happy Second Birthday, FlowingData
Two years ago on June 25, 2007, I wrote the first post for FlowingData. It was rambling gibberish, and I really had no idea what I was doing. I was…
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