Unlike Daniel LaRusso, most students need context for the importance and meaning of concepts to soak through [via]
Nathan Yau
-
Link
Mr. Miyagi and statistics education →
-
Link
How to read a topographic map →
You know, the one with all the lines and shading
-
Link
Google launches indoor maps →
For airports, shopping, and such
-
Link
Children can do stats, probably →
Researchers trying to get kids to understand randomness
-
Mitt Romney pseudo-venn diagram, used incorrectly
The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…
-
A year of global cloud coverage →
Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…
-
Link
James Bond of Data Science →
His name is Conway. Drew Conway. He takes his data open, not closed.
-
Link
Recline.js →
Javascript library by Open Knowledge Foundation for building data applications in the browser
-
Link
Creating Animations and Transitions With D3 →
Good primer
-
Beer versus church mapped →
The geographers at Floatingsheep are at it again, this time comparing tweets that…
-
Link
DC power outage →
NASA satellite images of before and after the lights went out
-
Age range of US Olympic athletes, by sport
The Washington Post has a fun piece that compares your age to that…
-
The Higgs Boson explained by PhD Comics
Don’t know what the Higgs Boson is (or even how to pronounce it)?…
-
Infographics are like Mother’s Day cards
Stamen Design is the cover story of this month’s Icon Magazine. Well deserved.…
-
Link
Sparse Matrices in R →
Making use of the Matrix and glmnet packages
-
Link
Toner V2 →
Stamen updated their custom black and white map tiles, looking even classier
-
Link
Intro to Statistics →
Free course on extracting meaning from data
-
Link
Huffington Post Pollster API →
Data for 215k responses from 13k polls
-
Members Only
How to Make Stacked Area Charts in R
From the basic area chart, to the stacked version, to the streamgraph, the geometry is similar. Once you know how to do one, you can do them all.
-
How long it takes to get pregnant
The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…