Simple graphs in R but effective
Nathan Yau
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US health care spending →
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Common statistical fallacies
I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…
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Parallel Sets for categorical data, D3 port
A while back, Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz shared their work on Parallel…
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet →
There’s a lot of tracking as your browse the net, and here’s how to limit the bits of you data you put out there
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Histogrem →
Font to put histograms in your text files
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Axes in D3 →
Tutorial on built-in formatting
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Extreme ice time-lapse
Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…
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Bit rot →
The slow decay of digital content, and as a result, history
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Growth of the Data Scientist →
Short interview with Hilary Mason
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Bed cartography
Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert]…
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Agreement groups in the US Senate
PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…
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Setting expectations in data science projects →
Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals
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Visualization round table →
Discussing data and online journalism
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Open source Data Journalism Handbook launched
What used to be a small specialty in a few newsrooms has grown…
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Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated
The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…
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How to lie with smoking statistics →
Author of “How to Lie with Statistics” was a consultant to the tabacco industry
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Titanic infographics from 1912 →
Fourth one is the best, shows travel times to cross the Atlantic
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Data and visualization blogs worth following
About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about,…
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A Very Short History of Data Science →
Collection of notable articles on the budding field in chronological order, beginning in 1974
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How to Make a Sankey Diagram to Show Flow
These tend to be made ad hoc and are usually pieced together manually, which takes a lot of time. Here’s a way to lay the framework in R, so you don’t have to do all the work yourself.