WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…
2012
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Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped →
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Data Display vs. Data Visualization →
Or telling vs. exploring
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The Stupidity of Computers →
They only do what you tell them to do and nothing more i.e. no software is going to make you a data genius
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Charts describe love and relationships →
Love is complicated. It twists, it turns, and sometimes it smacks you in…
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Twitter data scientist →
Interview with Edwin Chen, whose job it is to make sense of tweets
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Time in Perspective →
Interesting view that transitions from past to present, weekly to hourly [via]
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Browse the web of Wikipedia with Wikiweb iPad app
While we’re on the subject of the web that is Wikipedia, four-man, Baltimore-based…
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Graphing every idea in history →
Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on Wikipedia…
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Feltronifier →
Lets you make a map similar to in the annual reports
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Dealing with data →
Towards reproducibility in research
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Amanda Cox wins ASA Excellence Award →
Well-deserved. Also see her talk at EyeO this year
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Olympian age distributions compared →
Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…
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How economists get tripped up by statistics →
“the more academic papers that economists read, the more misguided they’ll become”
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Underscore.Nest →
Convert flat data into nested tree structures
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Data plural versus data singular
Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
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The future of maps isn’t maps →
Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…
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Map of the underwater Internet →
Nicolas Rapp, for Fortune Magazine, mapped the underwater cables that make the global…
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Where you measure up against Olympians →
I think the theme of this year’s Olympic graphics is how you relate…
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A Criticism of Visualization Criticism Criticism →
Robert Kosara’s response to this
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Data Quotes →
Some fun ones