David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk, does some back-of-the-napkin math to…
2014
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Prostitution, GDP, and £1.7 billion due
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Decline of women in computer science
NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…
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Chess piece survival rates
On Quora, someone asked, “What are the chances of survival of individual chess…
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Statistically ignorant
Ipsos MORI, primarily a marketing research group I think, released results of their…
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Halloween costume rankings
Accompanying their segment on Halloween stores stocking costumes, NPR ranks bestsellers for the…
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Breakout detection in R
Say you have time series data and you want to detect significant changes,…
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Neurons conversing
Adam Cohen and his group are using genetically-modified neurons that light up when…
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Affordable Care Act progress report
The New York Times takes a data-centric look at the progress of the…
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Curse of dimensionality, interactive demo
Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…
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Data Fluency is Out Now
Data Fluency: Empowering Your Organization with Effective Data Communication, by Zach and Chris…
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Job Board, October 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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New York Times mapmakers
When news breaks, maps often accompany stories (or the maps are the story),…
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Visual summary of skateboarding tournament
George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…
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Moving Past Default R Charts
Customizing your charts doesn’t have to be a time-intensive process. With just a teeny bit more effort, you can get something that fits your needs.
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F1 racing winners and age
So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…
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Cynthia Brewer profile
Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…
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Your life on Earth
The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter…
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A healthy versus unhealthy office environment
In an interesting use of the before-and-after slider, this Washington Post graphic by…
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Data Fluency, Coming Soon
There’s a new addition to the FlowingData book series on the way.
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Map of book subjects on Internet Archive
The Internet Archive makes millions of digitized books available in the form of…