Statistical Visualization

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…

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…

Bonnie Berkowitz, Emily Chow and Todd Lindeman for the Washington Post plotted life…

Small charts. Click. Big chart.

As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put…

Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff for the New York Times explored…