2012

“changing from an information engine to a knowledge engine”

Washington Post’s Ezra Klein busts on the filibuster. Gone are the days of…

from McSweeney’s

“there are stories everywhere in data”

The New York Times does it again with this succinct look at tech…

Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less…

A visual programming environment to gather, shape, and share living data

Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…

3 leading data journalists present their favorite data tools

The unassuming little Descriptive Camera made me rethink data. This project by Matt…

“mullet of the internet”

A font for creating charts

Manipulate the graph structure by typing commands

What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass…

Yesterday I visited the ever popular NYU ITP bi-annual show which is a…

I’m going to be away for a couple of weeks, with little to…

Of the federal government IT professionals who collect big data, fewer than half said they extrapolate any meaningful trends from it

Surfing the Data Deluge to build a better world. May 16th 9:00-10:30am PST

Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a…