“weaving stories and data”
Nathan Yau
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Tapestry conference →
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Using data to find a husband
When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb…
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Bicoastal Datafest →
On February 2 and 3, analyze money’s influence on politics
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Character mentions in Les Miserables
Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character…
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Flowchart: Gandalf problem solving →
The Lotr Project breaks down the thought process in the magical mind.…
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Elements of Statistical Learning →
Free PDF download version for second edition of book [via]
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How a Civil War Vet Invented the American Infographic →
Creator of the first Statistical Atlas of the United States
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Series of concentric circles emanating from glowing red dot
Run for your lives. The red concentric circles on the green squiggly are…
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Animated GIFs in R →
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Random walk on pi →
By Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho, “This is a walk made out of the…
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The myth of the missing Data Scientist →
An argument against the buzz around the dire need for data scientists; some stuff to disagree with but some good points
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Without Human Insight →
Big data is just a bunch of numbers; computers will do the brute force labor, but you still have to use your brain.
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Why infographics rule →
This is how marketers see visualization and information graphics. Glorified spam, kind of.
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Five years of traffic fatalities
I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…
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Women as academic authors over the years →
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a look at the percentage of academic…
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D3 map projections →
A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3
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Time of travel in the 1800s
From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these…
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Wood charts reveal layers of underwater world →
Below the Boat produces beautiful laser-cut wood maps:
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R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies →
Download the book as a PDF with R code supplement
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Eyeo Festival 2013 →
Tickets don’t go on sale until February, but the first half of the speaker list was revealed. Looks great.