Need to pay attention to what you’re using as an indicator
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Measuring education →
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So you call yourself a data scientist? →
What they do and how to hire them [via]
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Computing for Data Analysis →
Free course from John Hopkins stat prof; also one on straight-up data analysis
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ProPublica gets $1.9m from Knight →
Everybody wins
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Data Display vs. Data Visualization →
Or telling vs. exploring
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The Stupidity of Computers →
They only do what you tell them to do and nothing more i.e. no software is going to make you a data genius
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Twitter data scientist →
Interview with Edwin Chen, whose job it is to make sense of tweets
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Time in Perspective →
Interesting view that transitions from past to present, weekly to hourly [via]
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Feltronifier →
Lets you make a map similar to in the annual reports
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Dealing with data →
Towards reproducibility in research
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Amanda Cox wins ASA Excellence Award →
Well-deserved. Also see her talk at EyeO this year
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How economists get tripped up by statistics →
“the more academic papers that economists read, the more misguided they’ll become”
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Underscore.Nest →
Convert flat data into nested tree structures
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A Criticism of Visualization Criticism Criticism →
Robert Kosara’s response to this
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Data Quotes →
Some fun ones
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Newspapers running out of time →
Rundown of the struggling state of those rooted in the paper medium
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The Act of Creating Scientific Data Visualizations →
Process behind a couple of Periscopic pieces with non-profit organization, on endangered species
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Future of Visualization →
“will need to scale in terms of performance, density, and interactivity”
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What if? →
New weekly from xkcd, answering all the important questions of the universe
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Mr. Miyagi and statistics education →
Unlike Daniel LaRusso, most students need context for the importance and meaning of concepts to soak through [via]
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