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It’s December 1. ‘Tis the season for giving, so guess what – it’s time for a FlowingData contest! Jodi has kindly offered two free Edward Tufte books for one lucky…

Happy Thanksgiving! According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 45 million turkeys will be consumed today. I hope you’re contributing to the count. Dibs on wing.…

I subscribed to GOOD Magazine a while back. They describe themselves as the magazine for people who “give a damn.” I initially subscribed because of their transparency section – a…

I had to install a new caching implementation a few days ago to appease the hosting gods. Since then I’ve gotten a few emails reporting garbled text instead of an…

Anyone who has a blog can attest to this. No matter how much you tweak your blog’s design, you can always find something else to “fix.” Maybe it’s the spacing…

While we’re on the subject of contests, lets not forget the epic battle for best caption. Thank you to everyone who participated. All the entries were great and really entertaining,…

I’m headed to Chicago next week for Wired Magazine’s NextFest, “a premier showcase of the global innovations transforming our world.” So if you happen to be there, come find me…

As promised, it’s time for a FlowingData contest. To the winner goes The Numerati by Stephen Baker, a book about how data play a huge role in our future. Indeed,…

I’m pleased to welcome Tableau Software as FlowingData’s newest sponsor. I know that a lot of you already use Tableau for your data visualization and analysis needs, but for those…

Some of you might have noticed that FlowingData has a new sponsor in the sidebar. It’s Eye-Sys, an impressive visualization tool that aims to make complex data easy to understand.…

I hope you’ll consider joining me on Blog Action Day on October 15 this year. It’s a day for bloggers around the world to all discuss one topic to raise…

Notice anything new at the top of this page? FlowingData readers, say hello to FlowingData forums. FlowingData forums, say hello to FlowingData readers. Tada, you’re not strangers anymore. Now you…

A few days ago, FlowingData’s subscriber count shot up to 3,100+ subscribers, moving past the three thousand mark for the first time. I just wanted to take this chance to…

It’s been one year since my rambling post on creating effective visualization. It seems so long ago. What was I thinking? Since then, FlowingData has grown to 313 posts, 801…

For the next few days, I’m in Bremen, Germany for a conference on statistical graphics. The official name is Statistical Graphics: Data and Information Visualization in Today’s Multimedia Society. While…

Freebase is one of my two new favorite toys, the other being my Xbox 360. Freebase is a free database of the world’s knowledge, licensed under Creative Commons and provides…

I’m headed to Washington tomorrow for the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks. There are several sessions tomorrow, of which I’ll probably attend Using Wireless Networks for Human Rights and…

My wife and I are celebrating our one-year anniversary this week with an all-inclusive trip to some tropical island. If all has gone according to plan, I should be sitting…

A quick announcement: I’m headed back to California for a few days and may or may not be online. While I’m gone, I have a couple of interesting guest posts…

Early next month, I’m going to be traveling a bit. I’m headed back to California for about a week for some work-related stuff. Soon after, my wife and I will…

Congratulations, Cody, the winner of a brand new copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information! Thank You Everyone Thank you to everyone who left comments and participated in this…

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I’ve been due for an upgrade for quite some time now, but I kept putting it off due to fear. The upgrade took about…

A quick reminder – there’s just three more days to put in your contest entry to win Edward Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Leave a comment on any FlowingData…

Speaking of contests, the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University is holding their first annual art contest.…

FlowingData reached a long awaited milestone yesterday – 1,000+ subscribers. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed, commented on, and linked to FlowingData. To extend my thanks, I’m running a…

Hi, Boing Boing readers. Welcome to FlowingData. For the new visitors, here’s the rundown (and for the old visitors, welcome back). My name is Nathan, and I’m a statistics graduate…

I started a FlowingData Facebook group a couple of weeks ago, and I guessed that about two people would join. I was slightly off, and we’re up to 92 now…

Everyone knows that The New York Times produces great graphics. I bet you’re interested in how those graphics get made. What’s the process of making a graphic? What makes a…

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