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Below are some of the important categories here at FlowingData and their most popular posts.

Design

Important in presenting data clearly and beautifully.

Bars as an Alternative to Bubble Charts
A Little Bit of Design Goes a Long Way With Infographics
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)?

Online Applications

Exploring, visualizing, and sharing data online.

World Freedom Atlas
Yahoo Charts Control Library Now Available
Graphwise: Crawling the Web for Tabulated Data

Software

What is the Best Way to Learn Flash/Actionscript for Data Visualization?
How to Learn Actionscript (Flash) for Data Visualization
Use Flare Visualization Toolkit to Build Interactive Viz for the Web

Statistics

More than mean and standard deviation.

Reflecting on Life After Statistics - R.I.P. Minghui Yu
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is Live
Comparing Roger Clemens to Hall of Fame Pitchers

Data Sharing

100 Reasons You Should Be Interested in, Want to Share, and Get Excited About Data
My Mission is to Collect Basic Data
Access Restrictions on the Release of Gun Sales Data

Data Sources

Have fun and play with some numbers.

10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected
Education Statistics Free, Available, and Waiting for You
25 Highest Grossing Films of All Time (Wallpaper)

Exploratory Data Analysis

John Tukey and the Beginning of Interactive Graphics
Exploring Twitter with Blocks
Netflix Prize Dataset Visualization

Mistaken Data

Misleading Map of Buffalo Snow
All Linkin Park Songs Look the Same? Maybe Not.
Juice TESTING in Competitive Sports

Social Data Analysis

Sharing Personal Data to Push Social Data Analysis
Going Beyond Collaborative Visual Analytics with Statistics
Social Data Analysis by the Swarm

Social Networks

17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
Facebook Lexicon - Trends for Writings on the Wall
Names Mentioned in Debates by Major Presidential Candidates

Visualization

Making data available to everyone imagery.

21 Ways to Visualize and Explore Your Email Inbox
3 Rules of Thumb When Designing Visualization
21 (Eco)Visualizations for Energy Consumption Awareness

Artistic Visualization

Finding the beauty in numbers.

Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish on Twitter
News Flowing Through Moveable Type at The New York Times Building
A World of Information in Data-driven Art - Not Your Grandma's Dashboard

Infographics

Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic
Ebb and Flow of Box Office Receipts Over Past 20 Years
American Consumers Spend More Money On Cheese than On Computers

Mapping

Intuitive and perfect for distributing data to the masses.

17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
Area Codes in Which Ludacris Claims to Have Hoes
Three Designers, a Statistician, and Migration Inflows Data

Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
How to Read (and Use) a Box-and-Whisker Plot
Explore Your del.icio.us Tags and Bookmarks On 6pli

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