As the publication of Data Points nears, I’m excited to hold it in…
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Data Points: What it’s like to write a book
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How to be Interesting by Jessica Hagy
Jessica Hagy, the one who made Venn diagrams on index cards popular, has…
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Advanced R development book
Hadley Wickham has been working on a book that covers advanced programming in R, namely programming concepts and workflow and package development. It goes to print later this year, but the contents are freely available for consumption now.
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A fill-in-the-blank book to journal your life in graphs
My friends just got this for me, and it’s pretty much the perfect…
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Insisting on beautiful maps
In the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society,…
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Text Processing with MapReduce →
From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github
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Book: The Art of R Programming
R, the favorite computing language of a growing number of statisticians, is friendly…
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Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams
For several decades, Harvard Laboratory of Adult Development has chronicled the lives of…
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Visualize This: Brainstorming book ideas
When I first got the opportunity to write a book, I was excited…
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Friday freebies: Comment to win a copy of R Cookbook – winners announced
Want a free copy of R Cookbook by Paul Teetor? You’re in luck,…
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Visualize This: From my editor
Thanks for yet another very enjoyable chapter. If I had known statistics would…
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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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Comment to win a copy of Data Analysis with Open Source Tools – winner announced
Looking to get more serious about your data analysis? Data Analysis with Open…
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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…