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Did you hear the news? The White House officially appointed DJ Patil as…

We heard a little bit about The Upshot last month. Now we get…

John McDuling for Quartz writes about the FiveThirtyEight replacement.
David Leonhardt, the Times’…

The Simply Statistics unconference just started a few minutes ago. Tune in live…

The Onion tackles data privacy:
“As a law-abiding resident of this nation, I…

With all the stuff going on with surveillance and data privacy — especially…

Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.

Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus. Well, about as cool as someone who calls his or herself a data cruncher, anyways.

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has a call for magic grants for “a small team of graduate students or postgraduates who are expected to demonstrate the relevance and viability of their ideas by implementing a prototype or creating an innovative media product.” The Columbia branch is led by my adviser. Proposal submission deadline is May 3.

Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera talks about big data in Charlie Rose interview.

There’s a data scientist opening at The New York Times, probably to fill the gap left by DataKind founder Jake Porway. [via]

Pitch Interactive’s drone visualization spread across the Web yesterday. Wes Grubbs, the founder of the group, talked about the data on HuffPost Live.

Nicholas Felton, who you probably know from his annual reports, is giving a two-day workshop on May 27 to 28 in Berlin on designing data-based visual narratives. It’s limited to 20 participants, so it’ll probably be an up close and personal experience.

A thorough recap of the event

Help improve health care with data; $100k prize

Still building the speaker list, but Amanda Cox is the keynote speaker, so it should be worth it just to hear her talk.

“weaving stories and data”

On February 2 and 3, analyze money’s influence on politics

Using DNA as a storage device, Harvard researchers managed to store one million…

Thousands of people have attended Edward Tufte’s one-day course on data graphics. Robert…