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Jessica Hagy tackles the complex relationship between the amount of information we have and the level of confusion we experience: Yup, looks about right. Of course, as Nate points out, there are ways to widen the valley. But I’ll leave that for another post.
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So says Professor Jimmy Lin at the University of Maryland in a recent NYT Technology article about the shortfall in “Big Data-competent” university students. The article points out that the kind of data we are now dealing with (which will only continue to increase exponentially) requires a different perspective and experience than most currently have. [...]
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In keeping with my theme on the importance of presenting data in a relational format, David McCandless at Information is Beautiful provides an excellent infographic which puts the risks of taking the HPV vaccine into proper context (based on actual data):
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Via FlowingData, a great visualization by Ben Fry. Fry looks at how The Origin of Species changed from the first edition to the sixth edition, noting which passages were added, removed, edited, etc. You can watch the text change by edition as well as scroll over each section to see the actual text by edition. [...]
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Nathan at the always excellent FlowingData provides a great guide on what tools are available for getting started with data visualization. He categorizes each tool by the purpose of the visualization (e.g. publication, presentation, analysis, etc.), provides their pros and cons, as well as which tools are currently free. So far I have only used [...]
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I wanted to draw your attention to a recent post by Manuel Lima at Visual Complexity, a great blog and website about data visualization. Lima discusses the state of visualization and provides his manifesto for what he sees as the proper requirements of Information Visualization vs Information Art. His rules: Form Follows Function Start with [...]
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Substantive blogging will be brisk this week until I finish drafting an article I am working on and get it off to my co-author. The danger of tiny samples: “The failure to understand that events occur randomly is a failure to understand causality”. Couldn’t have said it better myself. IBM’s Predictive Ideas Market: IBM is [...]
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I am usually a fan of Charles Blow’s work, but his latest op-ed seems to me a bit sloppy. Blow claims that one reason Democrats, and President Obama in particular, may be having trouble convincing the country to sign on to large-scale health care reform is due to the public’s overall lack of trust in [...]
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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
