Shan Carter on data storytelling
Dec 01, 2011 12:58 am Shan Carter, who makes interactive graphics for The New York Times, talks telling stories with data in his aptly named presentation, "How I tried for years to find the perfect form for interactive graphics, how I failed, and why, whether a perfect form exists or not, I've stopped my desperate pursuit." He starts with finding ...
Continue reading → Four degrees of separation
Nov 30, 2011 12:45 am 
Testing the idea of six degrees of separation, first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy, the Facebook Data Team and researchers at the Università degli Studi di Milano found that most of us are connected by even fewer degrees, and average separation is getting smaller: While we will never know if it was true in 1929, the ...
Continue reading → Do you need a data scientist?
Nov 29, 2011 09:30 am Cathy O'Neil on when there's enough data to justify a data scientist in the workplace: Too much to fit on an Excel spreadsheet. And it's not just how much, it's really about how high quality the data is; the best is for it to be clean and for it to not be public, or at ...
Continue reading → US road fatalities mapped, 9 years
Nov 29, 2011 12:23 am 
For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through 2009, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. The map is kind of rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. Easily zoom in to the location of choice either by clicking buttons, or type in the area you ...
Continue reading → Finding best deals: Black Friday is for retailers
Nov 28, 2011 12:17 am There's so much emphasis and attention on Black Friday, the day of sales after Thanksgiving in the states. People line up for hours before stores open at midnight in hopes that they'll be able to get the best deal, but it looks like Black Friday isn't even the day to get the best deals: For ...
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