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Critique of a Charles Booth poverty map rework

The method in real life

How we perceive and how we should use them

“What we have to learn to do, and the best way of stopping ourselves from getting embarrassed, is to stop and check that something makes sense.”

I did a Q&A that I thought was for a larger, more general article on visualization. They posted the whole thing. Edward Tufte answered some questions in the first interview of the series.

Fixing a busted pie chart

Short interview with Francesco Franchi, art director for IL-Intelligence. From Visual Storytelling book [via]

Needs to add “for business analytics” in parentheses

Link to code snippets towards the bottom

New blog by a classmate of mine

Untangling network graphs with various methods, such as a matrix diagram

A career in statistics. Lots to be excited about.

Terminology popularized by Tufte, complete with oft-repeated quote conclusion, “There is no such thing as information overload. Only bad design.” Note: None of these words will help you visualize data better.

Nine-part series, so far, on getting started with the JavaScript library

Free webinar on February 8 from Hadley Wickham on his popular R graphics package. There’ll be a brief overview, sneak peek at new features, and lessons learned for good development.

Leading up to this year’s event, most of the talks from last year’s are up. This year’s speaker lineup looks even better. A must if you’re interested in visualization outside of analytics.

Proper ranking, instead of just using raw values [via]

What they are, when to use them and when not to

Slides and some sample code for an intro to the software [via]

Companies, especially tech ones, like to spout numbers, but when you actually look, the numbers are often meaningless. [via]