2012

The statisticians are still gaga over this. Here’s more code to do it.

Now that you know how color labeling changes by gender, I bet you’re…

Not just Arial

“simple models can close the accuracy gap when applied to large data sets”

Visualization is a great way to explain and describe data to people who…

I’m so glad there are people like Jake Porway in the world. The…

I’m late to this party. TileMill, by mapping platform MapBox, is open source…

During the Olympics, Studio NAND, Moritz Stefaner, and Drew Hemment tracked Twitter sentiment…

Locations that don’t exist, melting cities, and roads in the clouds

A couple of years ago, xkcd ran a survey that asked people to…

Some background on a connected scatterplot by Hannah Fairfield

Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil give the rundown on what a data…

It’s another label-your-axes joke from SMBC. Yep, still funny.
See also: this, this,…

Common sense is useful.

Integral to the data design process

Fetching tweets and metadata

This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…

Good explanation of the method to find centers of density, with interactive demos

I’m not sure what I’d do with Ablaze.js, a JavaScript library by Patrick…

Open source PDF, although looks pretty technical on first glance