A refocused challenge to provide the news, now “more nimble and more focused” with three rounds per year. Should be some great things that come out of this [via]
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Revamped Knight News Challenge →
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Deceptive in their beauty? →
Critique of a Charles Booth poverty map rework
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What’s the Matter With Chernoff Faces? →
The method in real life
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The Visual Language of Dashed Lines →
How we perceive and how we should use them
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How to correctly report numbers in the news →
“What we have to learn to do, and the best way of stopping ourselves from getting embarrassed, is to stop and check that something makes sense.”
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Interview with AdAge →
I did a Q&A that I thought was for a larger, more general article on visualization. They posted the whole thing. Edward Tufte answered some questions in the first interview of the series.
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A data mess →
Fixing a busted pie chart
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Visual Storytelling and New Languages in Journalism →
Short interview with Francesco Franchi, art director for IL-Intelligence. From Visual Storytelling book [via]
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Should Data Visualizations Be Beautiful? →
Needs to add “for business analytics” in parentheses
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Multilayer map with ggplot2 →
Link to code snippets towards the bottom
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R Function of the Day →
New blog by a classmate of mine
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Graphs Beyond the Hairball →
Untangling network graphs with various methods, such as a matrix diagram
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Career in Statistics
A career in statistics. Lots to be excited about.
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Tufte-isms →
Terminology popularized by Tufte, complete with oft-repeated quote conclusion, “There is no such thing as information overload. Only bad design.” Note: None of these words will help you visualize data better.
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D3 Tutorials →
Nine-part series, so far, on getting started with the JavaScript library
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Understanding Map Projections →
“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]
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A backstage tour of GGPlot2 →
Free webinar on February 8 from Hadley Wickham on his popular R graphics package. There’ll be a brief overview, sneak peek at new features, and lessons learned for good development.
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Eyeo Festival talks →
Leading up to this year’s event, most of the talks from last year’s are up. This year’s speaker lineup looks even better. A must if you’re interested in visualization outside of analytics.
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating →
Proper ranking, instead of just using raw values [via]
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Venn Diagrams →
What they are, when to use them and when not to
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