“Make statistics as relevant to your audience as possible and put the numbers into a context that people can instantly grasp.” [via]
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Presentation skills →
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Getstats →
Campaign by the Royal Statistical Society to help the general public understand and not shy away from statistics [via]
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Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 →
Use of Force layout, collision detection, and transitions to make this graphic from The New York Times
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Timetoast →
Lets you easily create online and interactive, event-based timelines and share them
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Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists →
Oldie but a goodie
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When open data is not open →
World Bank snuggles up with Google
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iBook Widgets with D3.js →
Getting closer to interactive text books
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OkCupid Trends process →
“The trick, in so far as I’ve observed one, is to pick questions first before you let the data be your guide.”
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Tufte carves out new life as sculptor →
He does art nowadays, and talks with the BBC how science influences his work
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Narrative Eros of the Infographic →
Survey of visual storytelling
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Data Stories →
Visualization podcast with a blend of research and in-practice. The first episode has some choppy spots, but it’ll get better.
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How to create a visualization →
Play, ask a question, sketch, crunch, and build
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Avoid inbreeding with online database →
“When you live in an isolated nation with a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh, accidentally lusting after a cousin is an all-too-real possibility.”
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An Introduction to Ethics of Big Data →
Free webcast from O’Reilly coming up this Thursday, as Strata conference nears
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Where the maps come from →
Stamen describes the process behind their latest interactive maps for Esquire
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Green Tea Press →
Free computer science books available as PDFs. The two most recent: Think Complexity (exploration with Python) and Think Stats
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Oracle tucks R stats language into database →
I think this R thing is legit
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Tweets as Poll Data? Be Careful →
Plenty of potential but a long way to go for real accuracy
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The Age of Big Data →
More hoorah for the data. Something in the water over at NYT or data is just that cool. Latter.
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Mathematica: A Love Story →
Expressing his ultimate love for the software
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