Links

Slides from Shan Carter’s lightning talk on the process behind the Obama spending bubbles [via]

“Make statistics as relevant to your audience as possible and put the numbers into a context that people can instantly grasp.” [via]

Campaign by the Royal Statistical Society to help the general public understand and not shy away from statistics [via]

Lets you easily create online and interactive, event-based timelines and share them

World Bank snuggles up with Google

Getting closer to interactive text books

“The trick, in so far as I’ve observed one, is to pick questions first before you let the data be your guide.”

He does art nowadays, and talks with the BBC how science influences his work

Survey of visual storytelling

Visualization podcast with a blend of research and in-practice. The first episode has some choppy spots, but it’ll get better.

Play, ask a question, sketch, crunch, and build

“When you live in an isolated nation with a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh, accidentally lusting after a cousin is an all-too-real possibility.”

Free webcast from O’Reilly coming up this Thursday, as Strata conference nears

Stamen describes the process behind their latest interactive maps for Esquire

Free computer science books available as PDFs. The two most recent: Think Complexity (exploration with Python) and Think Stats

I think this R thing is legit

Plenty of potential but a long way to go for real accuracy

More hoorah for the data. Something in the water over at NYT or data is just that cool. Latter.

Expressing his ultimate love for the software

A refocused challenge to provide the news, now “more nimble and more focused” with three rounds per year. Should be some great things that come out of this [via]