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In November of 2009, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released a study projecting what the jobs landscape would look like across various sectors in the year 2018. NPR published an interactive infographic illustrating the BLS’s forecasts. Not surprisingly, the BLS report forecasts the steepest decrease in the manufacturing industry, while services and health care [...]
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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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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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Fascinating infographic by the NY Times that essentially breaks down how Americans over the age of 15 spend every minute of every day. This is both impressive and informative. Who might be interested in this data? Social scientists, marketers, strategists, advertisers–you name it. I can see dozens of applications for this data. Via Fast Company.
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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
