Free webcast from O’Reilly coming up this Thursday, as Strata conference nears
Nathan Yau
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An Introduction to Ethics of Big Data →
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Slicing Obama’s 2013 budget proposal four ways
With Obama’s recent budget for next year proposed, Shan Carter et. al of…
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Where the maps come from →
Stamen describes the process behind their latest interactive maps for Esquire
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Green Tea Press →
Free computer science books available as PDFs. The two most recent: Think Complexity (exploration with Python) and Think Stats
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Oracle tucks R stats language into database →
I think this R thing is legit
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Interactive and animated word cloud
For those who die a little inside every time they see a word…
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Tweets as Poll Data? Be Careful →
Plenty of potential but a long way to go for real accuracy
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The Age of Big Data →
More hoorah for the data. Something in the water over at NYT or data is just that cool. Latter.
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Abstract maps of the United States
Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…
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Jeremy Lin is no fluke
Nate Silver looks at past players who have scored 20 or more points,…
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Mathematica: A Love Story →
Expressing his ultimate love for the software
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Famous dances in television and cinema illustrated
In a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Dancing Plague of 1518, Niege Borges illustrates…
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Revamped Knight News Challenge →
A refocused challenge to provide the news, now “more nimble and more focused” with three rounds per year. Should be some great things that come out of this [via]
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Deceptive in their beauty? →
Critique of a Charles Booth poverty map rework
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What’s the Matter With Chernoff Faces? →
The method in real life
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Why I Want to Quit Cable
There are good reasons to cancel cable, but there were a few channels and programs that kept me on. When you look at it in dollars though, it’s hard to justify the value for the cost.
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The Visual Language of Dashed Lines →
How we perceive and how we should use them
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Taxi migration in Manhattan
While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…
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Animation shows national migration patterns
Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…
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How to correctly report numbers in the news →
“What we have to learn to do, and the best way of stopping ourselves from getting embarrassed, is to stop and check that something makes sense.”