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The Climate Change Coloring Book by Brian Foo makes data tactile and interactive. “The goal is to encourage learning, exploration, and reflection on issues related to climate change through act…

Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the term wasn’t immediately associated with content marketing. (And there is still plenty of good infographic work that…

In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people talk like you, based on your own vocabulary. Things like coke versus soda. It’s a fine example…

For a year, Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi drew data postcards and sent them to each other once a week between New York and London. Each postcard was based on…

Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation between random things, such as divorce rate and cheese consumption or honey production and political action committees.…

A while back Alex Reinhart, a statistics instructor and PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, was working on a guide for doing statistics right. The goal was to teach through…

The Elements of Data Analytic Style by John Hopkins biostatistics professor Jeff Leek is a non-technical guide to the stuff they don’t always cover in Stat 101, and it’s priced…

Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of the common analysis mistakes in Statistics Done Wrong. Statistics Done Wrong is a guide to the most…

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős, written by Deborah Heiligman and illustrated by LeUyen Pham, is a kids’ book on the life of the prolific…

As the publication of Data Points nears, I’m excited to hold it in my hands just like I was the first time. It feels weird to say that. In college,…

Jessica Hagy, the one who made Venn diagrams on index cards popular, has a new book out today: How to be Interesting. You want to leave a mark, not a…

My friends just got this for me, and it’s pretty much the perfect gift, especially since my dissertation is about journaling and personal data collection. My Life in Graphs: A…

In the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society, Timothy Wallace and Daniel Huffman argue for beautiful maps that are a joy to examine. Design and…

R, the favorite computing language of a growing number of statisticians, is friendly enough that you can get a lot done without being an expert programmer, because there are a…

For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of hundreds of men from adolescence through adulthood for “an unprecedented database of life histories with which to…

When I first got the opportunity to write a book, I was excited about it, and then I had to figure out what I was going to write about. Data…

Want a free copy of R Cookbook by Paul Teetor? You’re in luck, because I have four copies to give away, generously provided by O’Reilly. In case you’re unfamiliar, here’s…

Thanks for yet another very enjoyable chapter. If I had known statistics would be like this, I would have actually taken classes. This is from my editor for Visualize This.…

R can be confusing when you’re first starting out, especially when you don’t have any experience in programming. There’s a lot of documentation online, and package developers do a decent…

Looking to get more serious about your data analysis? Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philip K. Janert can help you with that. The back cover reads: Collecting data…

Katy Börner, professor of information science, catalogs visualization and science in Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know. Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate…