Nathan Yau

Tim Berners-Lee with an update on open data

Data Sharing

If people put data on the Web – government data, scientific data, community…

Data Underload #13 – Corned Beef Recipe

Data Underload

For as far back as I can remember, I’ve always had corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day, or at least on the week of.

Weekend Fodder

Quicklinks

How to split up the US – Geographic clusters based on social network…

Challenge: Let’s do something with these 3-D pyramids

Ugly Charts

The government recommends a diet for healthy living, but there are billions of dollars of lopsided subsidies. Interesting point. Funky presentation.

Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris

Data Art, Reviews / featured, homeviz

We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.

What burger chain reigns supreme?

Maps

In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…

Canada: the country that pees together stays together

Statistical Visualization / hockey, peeing

EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…

Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm

Maps

In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…

Edward Tufte will serve on Recovery Independent Advisory Panel

Visualization

Big news for all you Edward Tufte fanboys and girls. He will be…

Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes

Data Underload

Here’s looking at you, data point.

Weekend Fodder

Quicklinks

Footprints – Every building footprint, and nothing else, in Montgomery County, Ohio. It’s…

Is Jeff Bridges most likely to win best actor?

Statistics

There’s this article on CNN, from The Frisky, that has this little theory…

Best of FlowingData – February 2010

Best of FlowingData

It was a good month for FlowingData. We passed the 30k-reader mark, and…

How Genetics Works

Misc. Visualization / homeviz

Simple yet effective. Any questions? [via 9gag | Thanks, Barry]…

Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math

Guides / data literacy

I call myself a statistician, because, well, I’m a statistics graduate student. However, the most important things I’ve learned are less formal, but have proven extremely useful when working/playing with data.