2012

Rethinking the pixel

Not out yet, but could be a fun one when it does

Process for finding the right sound just for a few seconds of audio

James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames…

“every ‘on the ball’ event for every Premier League player in every match from the entire 2011-12 Premier League season”

Statisticians should have these installed already

Automate the drudge work for an analysis project in R

Detailed article if you want to learn to analyze words

We’ve seen a lot of network charts for Twitter, Facebook, and real people.…

SAS clinging on as free and often better alternatives take marketshare [via]

Open source Mechanical Turk application by Twitter engineering that lets you easily submit data for review

Along the same lines as Jessica Hagy’s indexed charts, Coolness Graphed charts only…

Converts a CSV file into JSON or GeoJSON [via]

It’s not geographically accurate, but it wasn’t meant to be

Data Stories has Stefanie Posavec on as guest; she makes intricate pieces without code

Botanicus Interacticus from Disney Research turns plants into multi-touch surfaces, simply by placing…

From the department of old-but-new-to-me, Pop Chart Lab charted the evolution of video…

So much hype and funding for big data, but statistics as a field of study seems to be lost

Vulture plotted Meryl Streep’s character faces on a cold-warm, frivolous-serious scatterplot. Sure, why…

Twitter releases HDFS-DU to explore what’s going on in your clusters