Nathan Yau

ESPN profiled professional basketball gambler Bob Voulgaris. He shoots a lot of data into a predictive model for NBA games and then makes bets based on simulations. His ROI is falling.

From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…

Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

The Stanford seminar lectures on human-computer interaction are all free to view online. They all look good, but lecture 6 on “living, breathing data” with Kim Rees from Periscopic should be of most interest.

Steven Citron-Pousty provides a thorough primer on finding and making sense of geospatial data on the Internet.

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

It’s not especially straightforward to know or find out what’s going on with…

With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, 116 cardinals from various regions have to come…

Hadley Wickham has been working on a book that covers advanced programming in R, namely programming concepts and workflow and package development. It goes to print later this year, but the contents are freely available for consumption now.

Nicholas Felton, who you probably know from his annual reports, is giving a two-day workshop on May 27 to 28 in Berlin on designing data-based visual narratives. It’s limited to 20 participants, so it’ll probably be an up close and personal experience.

Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is…

A follow-up to this from David Brooks

Possible path drawing in video games [via]

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

A thorough recap of the event

There’s a corner of my desk reserved for books, notes, papers, and other…

Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Mike Bostock for The New York Times, analyzed…

New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source