Statistical Visualization

Weddings are special events where friends and family come together to celebrate, and…

Forecast, one of the best if not the best quick-look weather sites, uses…

Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers’ claimed wealth in their songs versus their…

Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…

Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…

Hadley Wickham gives a two-hour video tutorial on how to use his ggplot2 package in R. I have limited experience with it, but a lot of people really like it and use the package exclusively for their visual analysis needs.

The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…

The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…

If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…

FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…

Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous…

Who’s going to be the next pope? I know all of you are…

Helped out some for this NPR article

With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…

Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now…

Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…

Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character…