Miscellaneous

Those interested in data visualization always seem to fall into one of these five categories.

Dilbert is one of the best comics ever.

Visualization Criticism – A criticism on the criticism on visualization. Robert Kosara, Fritz…

Of the 23,160 Facebook applications, I use about 5, but I probably wouldn’t…

Let me introduce you to the greatest data visualization of all time. FlowingData…

This just might be nerdy statistics overload even for me. A group from…

Billions of watts are wasted every year including 1955, 1985, and 2015. Be…

Data is absolutely vital to Google’s success; without data, Google is pretty much…

For your long, relaxing weekend, enjoy some long, relaxing reading.

In this age of abundant data, it is technically challenging to infuse graphics with as much of it as possible.

This guest post is by Hadley Wickham, a Statistics PhD candidate and a…

This guest post is by Mike Love, and he answers my question —…

Matthew Hurst, from Microsoft Live Labs and the co-creator of BlogPulse, answers my…

This guest post is by Andrew Gelman from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and…

Change the word ‘force’ to ‘data’ in your favorite Star Wars quotes, and you’ll suddenly understand what I mean by flowing data.

A select group of experts from several different fields were nice enough to share with me what data means to them.

I just saw Stranger than Fiction. The main character, Harold Crick, spends much…

My roommate pointed out a couple of weeks ago that I always get…

Every now and then I indulge in a Big Mac meal from McDonald’s.…

Jorge Luis Borges wrote this really good fictional short story in 1944 called…