Google Reader Feed: My Shared Items
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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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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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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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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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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I just became a beta tester for a really interesting new venture: Book of Odds. Book of Odds is a website that attempts to collect and organize as many odds statements as possible: For over three years we have been building what we believe is the missing dictionary, one filled not with words, but with [...]
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Last week, the WSJ ran an article on the increasing use of insights from behavioral economics by businesses and organizations. Organizations are using these insights to ‘nudge‘ customers and clients toward specific behaviors–e.g. using less energy, opting in to the home delivery of prescription drugs, etc. The essence of behavioral economics is that humans fail [...]
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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
