Nathan Yau

Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…

James Cheshire ponders the difference between fast and slow thinking maps, and the…

Choppy but a good start

Gregor Aisch wanted a better way to make maps online that allowed something…

Great slide deck from Mike Bostock’s D3 workshop; a must for anyone new to the library

I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…

Do the math yourself and save readers the trouble; also more informative a lot of the time

His annual report came out recently; the interviews follow

This came via Twitter from @christopferd:
Will @flowingdata caption my 2 yr old’s…

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…

How-tos from around the Web for R, D3, and the now-defunct Protovis [via]

“APIs are for nerds (Nerds who build freaking awesome sports stuff.)” [via]

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…

Why, what and how of open data from Open Knowledge Foundation

Free ebook on making use of open government data [via]

Interactive visualization continues to grow more useful and prominent in every day analysis.…

Newest version of the R graphics package contains a lot of new features and updates

Guardian asks actual data scientists what data science is. Recurring theme is a blending.

The quantified self movement continues:
This may sound creepy, but tens of thousands…

Other than with base R functionality, people typically use Lattice or ggplot2. In this multi-part post, lattice plots are recreated with ggplot2, code snippets included