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• Discover Your Future for 2009 - CookieSays Fortunes

  Jan 6, 2009 / 1 comment
  First off, happy new year! I'm back from my short hiatus from blogging and school. I trust everyone had a good holiday week. I saw a couple of good movies: …

• Visual Guide to General Motors’ Financial Woes

  Jan 5, 2009 / 2 comments
  As you've probably heard, General Motors has come on some financial troubles and grows increasingly desperate for a federal bailout. How did the American vehicle giant get to this point? …

• Thank You, FlowingData Sponsors

  Jan 5, 2009 / Add comment
  December was a good month for FlowingData with some big waves of traffic and nearly 1,000 new readers. The new server withstood the spikes though, and everything was good and …

• Graphs Lead to Decline in Love

  Jan 2, 2009 / 3 comments
  Coincidence. Absolutely. Lisa Simpson agrees. Have a good weekend all. [via xkcd | Thanks, Steve]  …

• 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending

  Jan 1, 2009 / 2 comments
  GOOD Magazine's most recent infographic (above and below) on consumer spending got me to thinking about all the other approaches I've seen on the same topic. The number of ways …

• Sensors in Footballs - Was the Pass Good?

  Dec 30, 2008 / Add comment
  Graduate student researchers are pretty much putting sensors in everything these days. There's always more data to collect and more information to gather. Computer engineering students from Carnegie Mellon University …

• Researchers Map Chaos Inside Cancer Cell

  Dec 29, 2008 / 4 comments
  The thing about cancer cells is that they suck. Their DNA is all screwy. They've got chunks of DNA ripped out and reinserted into different places, which is just plain …

• Budweiser Maps Drinkabilty of Bud Light Beer

  Dec 28, 2008 / 4 comments
  Yes, watered down and flavorless beer has high drinkability. You know, sort of like water. The difference is shade of yellow. …

• Because It’s Friday: Escalators

  Dec 26, 2008 / 1 comment
  [via xkcd | Thanks, Justin] …

• FlowingData Takes A Break

  Dec 24, 2008 / Add comment
  FlowingData posts will slow down this holiday week. I'm going to be busy watching all the movies coming out this Christmas and eating a lot of food that will inevitably …

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