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The Upshot, a data-centric site from The New York Times launched
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The New York Times announced their data-driven news site, The Upshot
John McDuling for Quartz writes about the FiveThirtyEight replacement.
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Future of Statistics livestream
The Simply Statistics unconference just started a few minutes ago. Tune in live…
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Other than advertisers
The Onion tackles data privacy:
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Nothing to hide
With all the stuff going on with surveillance and data privacy — especially…
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Researchers store petabits of data with DNA
Using DNA as a storage device, Harvard researchers managed to store one million…
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Review of Tufte course
Thousands of people have attended Edward Tufte’s one-day course on data graphics. Robert…
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Thoughts on the HCIL symposium
Last week I attended the 29th annual symposium at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab…
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United Stats of America series premiere tonight
The series premiere of United Stats of America (See what they did there?)…
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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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Gimme my data
We intentionally and unintentionally put data in places like Facebook and Google but…
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Shan Carter on data storytelling
Shan Carter, who makes interactive graphics for The New York Times, talks telling…
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Do you need a data scientist?
Cathy O’Neil on when there’s enough data to justify a data scientist in…
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Popular Science data issue
The November issue of Popular Science is a special on data. There are…
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Telling Stories with Data – VisWeek 2011
Note from Nathan: Last week, visualization researchers from all over gathered in Providence,…
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Word clouds cause death… or something
Jacob Harris, a New York Times senior software architect, rants about how people…
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Smart people talk about art and data
A few months ago, a packed crowd gathered in Minneapolis for the Eyeo…
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Data-ish job openings
If you’re good with data and looking for a job, you’re in luck.…
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Strata data conference: Last day for early bird registration + 20% off
Following the success of the Strata conference earlier this year here on the…
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Data Scientist: The hottest job you haven’t heard of
Maryalene LaPonsie describes some novel job called Data Scientist (although we’ve known about…