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(This article originally appeared at Beyond the Box Score, where I am now a regular contributor) 2010 marks the end of the “ought” decade for Major League Baseball. I thought I would take the opportunity to analyze the last 10 years by visualizing team data. I used Tableau Public to create the visualization and pulled team [...]
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Great visualization via FlowingData that takes the United States, Europe, China, Japan, and India and places them within the continent of Africa to give you a better sense of the relative size of the continent. It is a great example of how relational visualization can make an impact. It also reminded me of this episode [...]
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Via VC Blog, a really interesting tree-map visualization from the media-viz leader, The New York Times: Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent The size of each rectangle is proportional to the items share of the total budget. There are two great features that make this visualization particularly helpful. One is you can toggle back [...]
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Just yesterday, my colleagues and I were discussing the merits of health supplements. Specifically, we were talking about the extent to which there is scientific evidence to back up their effectiveness claims. Who knew that I would pop open my Google Reader to find that one of the latest creations from Information is Beautiful focuses [...]
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Cliff Kuang at Fast Company points to a short, interesting talk by Alex Lundry of TargetPoint Consulting. Lundry quickly runs down the importance of infographics and data visualizations in the political realm. Bottom line: people are hard wired to learn through visualization, and infographics can be very powerful tools in political battles over ideas and [...]
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Two data visualizations caught my eye over the past few days; one related to consumer spending and the other focused on the unemployment rate. The first comes via Nathan Yao over at FlowingData, who has put together an interactive data visualization that depicts spending patterns by U.S. consumers over the past 25 years (data courtesty [...]
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AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s A Map For That’ advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts. Verizon in an official response to AT&T’s lawsuit that Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” ad campaign is misleading. The background is that Verizon recently rolled out a [...]
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Two topics that are right up my alley: international conflict and data visualization. Put the two together, and you have a truly thought provoking piece of work. David McCandless is a “visual journalist” who specializes in visualizing data across numerous subjects. In his latest work for The Guardian’s Data Blog, David visualize a ton of [...]
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It has been said by smarter people than I that the single biggest reason for the NY Yankees’ post-season success since the mid-1990′s is the pitching of Mariano Rivera. Already a sure-fire Hall of Famer, Rivera’s performance over 88 post-season games is astounding. Last week, the NY Times published an article examining Rivera’s future. The [...]
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This is essentially the question asked and answered by Hans Rosling at a recent TED lecture. For those that don’t know him, Rosling is something of a superstar at the intersection of public health research and data visualization. Rosling’s recent work focuses on dispelling the misconception that there is a binary distinction between the developed [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
