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Reviews
Books, software, articles. Find out what’s good.
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Book: The Art of R Programming
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Review: R Cookbook from O’Reilly
R can be confusing when you’re first starting out, especially when you don’t…
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Review: Beautiful Visualization – Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
I finally got a chance to take a closer look at O’Reilly’s most…
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Review: Atlas of Science, Visualizing What We Know
Katy Börner, professor of information science, catalogs visualization and science in Atlas of…
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Review: Data Flow 2, Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Note: The review copy I received is in French. Unfortunately, I only understand…
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Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy
It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…
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Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.
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Review: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics
Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong provides the dos and don’ts of data presentation.
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Review: RoamBi, Seeing Your Data on the iPhone
This is a guest review by Peter Robinet of Bubble Foundry, a web…
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Review: Beginning Python Visualization
Python is a powerful programming language that’s good for a lot of things.…
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Review: Data Flow, Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design isn’t an Edward Tufte book. It’s…
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Get a Good Night’s Sleep with SleepTracker Pro [Review]
I’ve had sleep troubles for as long as I can remember. When I…
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Putting Analysis Online With StatCrunch and Covariable [Review]
Are online statistical tools sufficient to analyze our complex datasets?