{"id":24,"date":"2012-12-06T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braumoeller.info\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:02:59","slug":"dataviz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.braumoeller.info\/dataviz\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<script src=\"\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cashe-js\/143e7cdebf193d2764.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Given the extent to which statistics classes alienate undergraduates without necessarily providing a tangible benefit, and given the increasing availability of data and open-source tools with which to analyze data, Professor Braumoeller decided to focus his undergraduate methods teaching on data literacy, data visualization, and exploratory data analysis. The result is the iTunes U course, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/course\/data-literacy-data-visualization\/id693097601\">Data Literacy and Data Visualization,<\/a>&#8221; which\u00a0was listed on Apple&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewFeature?id=1301662096&amp;mt=10&amp;ls=1\">Off the Charts 2017<\/a>&#8221; compilation of most popular courses on iTunes U (the course is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLE3uzGh7FZRl4UEkm9LQpy7lOv9H6ibjY\">also available on YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most useful resources he&#8217;s found while creating the course are listed below.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/5&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20&#8243; tablet_height=&#8221;20&#8243; mobile_height=&#8221;10&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1252&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<script src=\"\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cashe-js\/143e7cdebf193d2764.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Overviews<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dirt.projectbamboo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bamboo Dirt project<\/a>, an aggregator of digital research tools from analysis to visualization<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikiviz.org\/wiki\/Tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WikiViz Tools<\/a> site<\/li>\n<li>Alberto Cairo&#8217;s thoughtfully curated list of readings, presentations, books and blogs over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefunctionalart.com\/2012\/10\/recommended-readings-for-infographics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Functional Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The multifaceted dataviz site <a href=\"http:\/\/improving-visualisation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">improving-visualisation.org<\/a> and in particular its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improving-visualisation.org\/links\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">page of links<\/a> to other sites<\/li>\n<li>High-tech and gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualisingdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visualising Data<\/a>, with a month-end best-of-web roundup and a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualisingdata.com\/index.php\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essential resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Similar dataviz blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Information Aesthetics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewhyaxis.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Why Axis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~stasko\/7450\/syllabus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CS 7450, Information Visualization<\/a> from Georgia Tech<\/li>\n<li>RWW&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best Tools for Visualization<\/a> site<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dataviz.tools\">dataviz.tools<\/a>, which contains a great variety of tools for data cleaning, scraping, charting, design, and more<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/selection.datavisualization.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">datavisualization.ch list<\/a> of selected tools (most require Javascript)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Design: How to Think About Visualization<\/h4>\n<div style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualcomplexity.com\/vc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visual Complexity<\/a> array of dataviz examples<\/li>\n<li>A wide range of examples (many too complex, but all beautiful) at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">FlowingData<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Information is Beautiful<\/a>, a blog with a wide range of data visualizations<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spatial Analysis<\/a>\u00a0blog with examples, news, and ideas<\/li>\n<li>The mindboggling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visual-literacy.org\/periodic_table\/periodic_table.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Periodic Table of Visualization Methods<\/a> (with mouseover illustrations)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chartporn.org\/2012\/03\/02\/improving-on-minard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Variations<\/a> on Minard&#8217;s famous graph<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsomeatlas.com\">A Handsome Atlas<\/a>, a catalog of gorgeous 19th-century data visualizations<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-bloggers.com\/visualization-series-insight-from-cleveland-and-tufte-on-plotting-numeric-data-by-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tutorial<\/a> on visualizing numeric data by groups<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/chartsnthings.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blog<\/a> about how the New York Times does its visualizations<\/li>\n<li>Kaiser Fung&#8217;s useful &#8220;don&#8217;t let this happen to you&#8221; blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/junkcharts.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Junk Charts<\/a>, and the charmingly horrifying\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/viz.wtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTF Visualizations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>When good dataviz goes bad: infographics at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/departments\/transparency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Good : Transparency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>All-in-One Examples:\u00a0Data + Visualization<\/h4>\n<div style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\n<ul>\n<li>A real-time Twitter trends map,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trendsmap.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trendsmap<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A searchable Twitter stream graph, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neoformix.com\/Projects\/TwitterStreamGraphs\/view.php\">Twitter StreamGraph<\/a> (uses Java; might not work on all browsers)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialexplorer.com\/pub\/home\/home.aspx\">Social Explorer<\/a>\u00a0(OSU login required), a portal for obtaining demographic data on the U.S.: Census, American Community Survey, etc. Also has lots of quick-and-easy (and very good) visualization options.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-958.ibm.com\/software\/data\/cognos\/manyeyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IBM&#8217;s ManyEyes<\/a>,\u00a0a general data-visualization engine with quite a few (iffy) user-supplied datasets<\/li>\n<li>A Facebook social-network graphing application, <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/socgraph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook Social Graph<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A great real-time stacked-time-series generator,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/babynamewizard.com\/voyager\" rel=\"nofollow\">NameVoyager, the baby name wizard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\/interactive\/2009\/07\/31\/business\/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times visualization<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/tus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Time Use Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wolfram&#8217;s massively useful general knowledge engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wolfram Alpha<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To visualize members of Congress&#8217; voting behavior (including data),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/manybills.researchlabs.ibm.com\/congressperson\/sherrod-brown\" rel=\"nofollow\">IBM&#8217;s Many Bills<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Terrific visualization of weather data at <a href=\"http:\/\/weatherspark.com\/#!graphs;a=USA\/OH_43201\/Columbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weatherspark<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A sobering graphic about <a href=\"http:\/\/theluxuryofprotest.com\/Everyone_Ever_in_the_World.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deaths in war<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A general data-visualization and mapmaking site with some built-in data, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacmeq.org\/statplanet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">StatPlanet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For global maps with weather data,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kunden.dwd.de\/GPCC\/Visualizer\" rel=\"nofollow\">GPCC Visualizer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An interesting, if somewhat rigid,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conflicthistory.com\/#\/period\/1816-1913\" rel=\"nofollow\">conflict visualization<\/a>\u00a0tool<\/li>\n<li>The problems facing the American budget:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/our-budget-problem-in-two-charts-and-one-issue\/2011\/09\/02\/gIQAuMfBxJ_blog.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">graphs<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/doc.cfm?index=12316\" rel=\"nofollow\">data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some nice opinion graphs illustrating epistemic closure and the effects of education:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/you_want_more_epistemic_closur\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Visualization Tools<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>An easy-to-use wordcloud generator,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wordle<\/a>\u00a0(and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2011\/10\/word-clouds-considered-harmful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thoughtful essay<\/a> on why wordclouds are bad, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/06\/10\/education\/commencement-speeches-graphic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an example<\/a> of an alternative)<\/li>\n<li>A more advanced and style-forward wordcloud generator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagxedo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tagxedo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/overview.ap.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Overview project<\/a> for visualizing relationships in large numbers of documents, with <a href=\"http:\/\/overview.ap.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/a-full-text-visualization-of-the-iraq-war-logs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an example<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s easy-to-use <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/chart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Chart Tools<\/a> API (helps to know HTML)<\/li>\n<li>A basic plug-and-play online chart builder, <a href=\"http:\/\/charts.hohli.com\/#cht=p3&amp;chs=320x240&amp;chd=s:&amp;chf=bg,s,FFFFFF%7Cc,s,FFFFFF&amp;max=100&amp;agent=hohli.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hohli<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The JavaScript-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jscharts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JSCharts<\/a> site, which allows easy construction of basic charts and graphs<\/li>\n<li>The glorious animated multicolored scatterplot engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/Gapminder.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gapminder.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s similar and equally awesome\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Data Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A general data-visualization engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-958.ibm.com\/software\/data\/cognos\/manyeyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IBM&#8217;s ManyEyes<\/a>\u00a0(update: RIP!)<\/li>\n<li>The extremely easy-to-use and attractive <a href=\"http:\/\/datawrapper.de\">Datawrapper<\/a> reactive-chart website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/raw.densitydesign.org\">Raw<\/a>, a straightforward and gorgeous way to turn spreadsheet data into vector graphics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/infogr.am\">Infogram<\/a>, an online chart and graph maker. Free version has 30 different kinds of graphs; paid version has more features, including live update from JSON or Google Drive<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idl.cs.washington.edu\/projects\/lyra\/\">Lyra<\/a>, a <em>really<\/em> slick interactive visualization design environment<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flourish.studio\/\">Flourish<\/a>, a gorgeous D3-based visualization engine with some jawdropping templates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plot.ly\">Plotly<\/a>, a collaborative online visualization and data analysis tool with some handy <a href=\"https:\/\/plot.ly\/api\/\">APIs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tableausoftware.com\/public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tableau Public<\/a> data-visualization tool<\/li>\n<li>The easy-to-use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpsvisualizer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GPS Visualizer<\/a> (requires longitude, latitude data)<\/li>\n<li>The Flash-based map- and trend-generation engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsilk.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">StatSilk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Flash-based (and web-centric, but gorgeous) <a href=\"http:\/\/flare.prefuse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flare<\/a><em>[requires nontrivial compilation]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The cross-platform, open-source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gephi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gephi<\/a>\u00a0tool for visualizing networks and complex systems<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cytoscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cytoscape<\/a> network visualization platform<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nodexl.codeplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NodeXL<\/a> network graphing tool [<em>requires Windows<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>The dead-simple and very impressive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lert.co.nz\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GunnMap<\/a> world map visualization tool<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openheatmap.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OpenHeatMap<\/a> distribution heatmap site<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The CartoDB site<\/span> for creating dynamic, data-driven maps quickly and easily (update: now improved and called <a href=\"https:\/\/carto.com\">Carto<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/mapbox.com\/tilemill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tilemill program at Mapbox<\/a> for visualizing data on maps, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tiles.mapbox.com\/mapbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">some examples<\/a> (tiered pricing includes free option)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/raw.densitydesign.org\">RAW<\/a>, an unbelievably easy to use and awesome\u00a0site that turns data into many different kinds of gorgeous vector graphics.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;free for now&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/chartsbin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ChartsBin<\/a> world map creation tool<\/li>\n<li>The easy-to-use, beautiful, and free <a href=\"http:\/\/geocommons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GeoCommons<\/a> map tool<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juiceanalytics.com\/chart-chooser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chart Chooser<\/a>, a website for graphs and tables from Excel or PowerPoint templates<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rosuda.org\/mondrian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mondrian<\/a>\u00a0interactive-graph interface for creating graphs from ASCII, R, or database files<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chartle.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chartle<\/a> tool (beta) for creating and exporting a variety of graphs and maps from Excel data<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sci2.wiki.cns.iu.edu\/display\/SCI2TUTORIAL\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science of Science<\/a>\u00a0meta-tool for data analysis and visualization<\/li>\n<li>A blog with relevant resources and links, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualisingdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visualizing Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some information on <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.stanford.edu\/papers\/flow_map_layout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flow maps<\/a>, with source code (alpha version, far from user-friendly) and a demo<\/li>\n<li>A fairly useful-looking web-based general data analysis tool,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcrunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">StatCrunch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stunning graphics for the programming-oriented at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">processing.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fontfont.com\/how-to-use-ff-chartwell\">FF Chartwell<\/a>, a typeface for creating simple graphs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Javascript Libraries\u00a0(<em>knowledge of Javascript required&#8230; but wow<\/em>)<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The flat-out-jawdropping\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbostock.github.com\/d3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data-Driven Documents<\/a>\u00a0(or D3) and some <a href=\"https:\/\/egghead.io\/technologies\/d3\">video tutorials<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christophe Viau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christopheviau.com\/d3list\/\">massive compilation of D3 examples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/square.github.com\/crossfilter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crossfilter<\/a>, a D3 library for creating dynamic views of different dimensions of a dataset<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/raphaeljs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapha\u00ebl<\/a>, a simple library for impressive vector graphics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arborjs.org\">Arbor<\/a>, a very slick library for creating network graphs<\/li>\n<li>The free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amcharts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">amCharts<\/a>\u00a0JavaScript bundle<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/worrydream.com\/Tangle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tangle<\/a>, a library that allows reactive visualization of the results of complex interactions or equations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/polymaps.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polymaps<\/a>, a mapping library designed around data visualization<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kartograph.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kartograph<\/a>, a Python library for really impressive interactive map visualizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Data Resources<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/how-tos\/digital-strategies\/e-media-tidbits\/102589\/how-to-scrape-websites-for-data-without-programming-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">An overview<\/a>\u00a0of data scraping<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outwit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OutWit Hub<\/a> data scraping program (free version has limited functionality)<\/li>\n<li>Two tools\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/arohatgi.info\/WebPlotDigitizer\/\">WebPlotDigitizer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datathief.org\">DataThief<\/a>\u2014for scraping data from graphs<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/scraperwiki.com\/scrapers\/basic_twitter_scraper\/\">basic Twitter scraper<\/a> at scraperwiki<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UaERzROI986HqcwrBDLaqGG8X_lYwctj6ek6ryqDOiQ\/edit\">comprehensive list<\/a> of Twitter and Facebook data collection tools by Deen Freelon<\/li>\n<li>A clear and detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/nerds\/item\/scraping-websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tutorial<\/a> from ProPublica on data scraping with Ruby<\/li>\n<li>Data scraping tools <a href=\"http:\/\/www.programmingr.com\/content\/webscraping-using-readlines-and-rcurl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">readLines, RCurl,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/scrapeR\/scrapeR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scrapeR<\/a>, for R<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlebase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Needlebase<\/a> data-scraping, acquisition, cleaning, and analyzing engine [Update: R.I.P.!]<\/li>\n<li>Two websites for converting web pages into APIs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimonolabs.com\">kimono<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/import.io\">import.io<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fusion Tables<\/a> for data acquisition, fusing, mapping, and graphing<\/li>\n<li>Two amazingly slick tools for dataset cleaning, <a href=\"http:\/\/vis.stanford.edu\/wrangler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Wrangler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openrefine.org\">OpenRefine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Free online data, plots, and dynamic data graphs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data360.org\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data360<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s web-based data-dredging tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/correlate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Correlate<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s incredibly addictive tool for tracking trends in phrases mentioned in books, <a href=\"http:\/\/ngrams.googlelabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google ngram viewer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The more general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Trends<\/a>\u00a0tool<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">QuantumGIS<\/a> geographical information project<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andreamostosi.name\/big-data\/\">Big data frameworks, resources, and tools<\/a>, collected by Andrea Mostosi. Mostly computer-science tools, with\u00a0some general data visualization tools at the end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Dataset Archives<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The IMF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/data.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online database<\/a> of economic indicators<\/li>\n<li>Incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\">data from the World Bank<\/a>, their <a href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/querybuilder\">API<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lamages.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/accessing-and-plotting-world-bank-data.html\">a tutorial<\/a> for using it in R<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialexplorer.com\/pub\/home\/home.aspx\">Social Explorer<\/a> (OSU login required), a portal for obtaining demographic data on the U.S.: Census, American Community Survey, etc. Census data in particular are <em>very<\/em> hard to obtain otherwise<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/explore.data.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data.gov<\/a>, the US Government&#8217;s online data warehouse, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.data.gov\/catalog\/raw\">raw data catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.gov\/statistics\">USA.gov collection<\/a> of data and statistics about the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mqscores.berkeley.edu\/measures.php\">Martin-Quinn data<\/a> on the ideological positions of Supreme Court justices<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC Wonder<\/a>, an easy-to-use portal for downloading data on a dazzling array of population, environmental, and mortality statistics<\/li>\n<li>The Census Bureau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/compendia\/statab\/\">Statistical Abstract<\/a>, &#8220;the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gssdataexplorer.norc.org\">GSS Data Explorer<\/a>, for extracting data from the huge and incredibly comprehensive General Social Survey at NORC<\/li>\n<li>NationalAtlas.gov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalatlas.gov\/atlasftp.html\">downloadable map data<\/a>, including data <em>and shapefiles<\/em> for past elections, climate, transportation, agriculture, etc., etc. Looking to map bat ranges? They&#8217;ve got that.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of fun\u00a0datasets, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/rs.io\/2014\/05\/29\/list-of-data-sets.html\">100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics<\/a>\u2014including <a href=\"http:\/\/networkdata.ics.uci.edu\/data.php?id=6\">dolphin social network data<\/a>. <em>Data on dolphins!!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>And speaking of networks, <a href=\"http:\/\/konect.uni-koblenz.de\/networks\/\">dozens of cool network datasets<\/a> from KONECT<\/li>\n<li>Ohio data at the Ohio Development Services Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/development.ohio.gov\/reports\/reports_research.htm\">Office of Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Millions of free time-series datasets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quandl.com\/academics\">Quandl for Academics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qog.pol.gu.se\/data\/datadownloads\/qogstandarddata\/\">quality-of-government indicators<\/a> from the Quality of Government Institute<\/li>\n<li>Data on <a href=\"http:\/\/trends.collegeboard.org\/college-pricing\">trends in college pricing<\/a> from collegeboard.org<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\">Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/a> website, with data on current news stories<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.nytimes.com\/docs\">New York Times&#8217; list of APIs<\/a>, including those on Congress and campaign finance<\/li>\n<li>CSV feed of <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/feed\/v0.1\/summary\/2.5_week.csv\">most recent earthquakes<\/a>, from USGS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openpaymentsdata.cms.gov\">Open Payments Data<\/a>, a huge database of pharmaceutical companies&#8217; payments to doctors and teaching hospitals. Contains dates, addresses, and amount of payment<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mgmt5.wharton.upenn.edu\/henisz\/POLCON\/ContactInfo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLCON<\/a>, the political constraint index<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openeventdata.org\">Open Event Data Alliance<\/a> website and their <a href=\"http:\/\/openeventdata.org\/datasets\/OEDA.datasets.php\">Phoenix<\/a> events data project, a massive attempt to codify international events of interest<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/collectiveaction\/cgi-bin\/drupal\/node\/1\">Dynamics of Collective Action<\/a> (DoCA) data project, reflecting 35 years of protest events, hand-coded by experts on social movements<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic online data compilations and visualizations at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/datadesk.latimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Los Angeles Times&#8217; Data Desk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tons of Big Data datasets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infochimps.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">InfoChimps<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Over 100 million time series at mercenary time-series aggregator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/datamarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DataMarket<\/a> (free subscription required)<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dataverse<\/a>\u00a0project for archiving and storing research data<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciser.cornell.edu\/ASPs\/datasource.asp\">Internet data sources for social scientists<\/a>, from Cornell University<\/li>\n<li>Paul Hensel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulhensel.org\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">international relations data<\/a> page and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isadiscussion.com\/view\/0\/datasets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ISA&#8217;s data compendium<\/a> (also by Hensel)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/esoc.princeton.edu\">Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) compilation<\/a> of micro-level conflict data<\/li>\n<li>Emory University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/einstein.library.emory.edu\/intlinks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Electronic Data Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/directory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Data<\/a> tool<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/icpsrweb\/ICPSR\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICPSR<\/a>\u00a0data archive<\/li>\n<li>Public opinion polls from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gallup<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ISA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isadiscussion.com\/view\/0\/datasets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data Compendium<\/a> page<\/li>\n<li>The IMF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.principalglobalindicators.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Principal Global Indicators<\/a> database<\/li>\n<li>User <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rudeboybert\/JSE_OkCupid\">profile data<\/a> for 59,946 San Francisco users of OkCupid, an online dating service<\/li>\n<li>Data on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\">baseball<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\">more baseball<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\">football<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\">hockey<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\">basketball<\/a> players and teams<\/li>\n<li>Drone strike data from <a href=\"http:\/\/dronestre.am\">Dronestream<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/api.dronestre.am\/data\">JSON feed<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/bretterblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/20\/obtaining-and-mapping-us-drone-strike-data-with-r-and-google-fusion-tables\/\">R tutorial<\/a>), the <a href=\"http:\/\/natsec.newamerica.net\/drones\/pakistan\/analysis\">New America Foundation<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/category\/projects\/drone-data\/\">Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/a>, and a tutorial<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ucrel.lancs.ac.uk\/bncfreq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raw data<\/a> about frequencies of words in written vs. spoken English<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Social Survey Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/psephos.adam-carr.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">electoral data<\/a> from Adam Carr at Psephos<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/psidonline.isr.umich.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panel Study of Income Dynamics<\/a> website<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/manifesto-project.wzb.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comparative Manifesto Project<\/a> database<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeansocialsurvey.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">European Social Survey<\/a> data website<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.correlatesofwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Correlates of War<\/a><\/li>\n<li>International events data projects listed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.ku.edu\/~keds\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KEDS Project<\/a> website<\/li>\n<li>Wikileaks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/DataSource?docid=1sJwY_gor3_DsAXMj1_QU1zBCdJ9kkf0BhXWehQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data on Iraq war deaths<\/a>, with latitude, longitude, and event type<\/li>\n<li>Wikileaks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/datablog\/2010\/jul\/26\/wikileaks-afghanistan-ied-attacks#data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data on Afghanistan IED attacks<\/a>, with spatial coordinates<\/li>\n<li>Historical economic data from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ggdc.net\/databases\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The University of Groningen<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Monstrous omnibus lists of data archives:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socsciresearch.com\/r6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social science data archives<\/a>\u00a0from Craig McKie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/datacatalogs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Catalogs<\/a>, a comprehensive list of open data catalogs from around the world<\/li>\n<li>Network data from <a href=\"http:\/\/snap.stanford.edu\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Presentation of Results<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a color scheme using <a href=\"http:\/\/colorbrewer2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorbrewer<\/a> or at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colourlovers.com\/palettes\/most-loved\/all-time\/grid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">colourlovers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select a new font or fonts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dafont<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Edit your initial image using <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inkscape<\/a>, an open-source Illustrator alternative<\/li>\n<li>Contemplate why exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jessedee\/you-suck-at-powerpoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">you suck at Powerpoint<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Resources for Connecting with R<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The R Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/socserv.mcmaster.ca\/jfox\/Misc\/Rcmdr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">R Commander<\/a> graphic interface<\/li>\n<li>Tom Short&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/doc\/contrib\/Short-refcard.pdf\">R Reference Card<\/a>, with a great summary of some of the most useful commands in R<\/li>\n<li>Tools for <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5465314\/tools-for-making-latex-tables-in-r\">making LaTeX tables in R<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/vincentarelbundock.github.com\/Rdatasets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rdatasets<\/a> site, which catalogs all of the datasets available natively in R<\/li>\n<li>A useful <a href=\"http:\/\/statistical-research.com\/importing-data-into-r-from-different-sources\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=importing-data-into-r-from-different-sources\">blog post<\/a> on importing data of different formats into R<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ropensci.org\/packages\/\">rOpenSci catalog<\/a> of R packages that interface with data repositories<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quandl.com\/help\/r\">Quandl for R<\/a>, a package for importing time series data from Quandl (above)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statconn.com\/products.html#RExcel\">RExcel<\/a>, a program that integrates\u00a0R into Excel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/lubridate\/lubridate.pdf\">Lubridate<\/a>, an R package for handling dates (this will seem trivial unless you&#8217;ve tried to use dates in R)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rosuda.org\/mondrian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mondrian<\/a> data-visualization interface, which can pull data from R to create interactive graphs<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.revolutionanalytics.com\/2011\/08\/r-datamarket.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rdatamarket<\/a> package for pulling data from <a href=\"http:\/\/datamarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DataMarket<\/a> directly into R<\/li>\n<li>R datasets on truly random (but generally interesting) topics at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reddit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/addictedtor.free.fr\/graphiques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">R Graph Gallery<\/a>, with source code<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/had.co.nz\/ggplot2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ggplot2<\/a> R library [now in maintenance mode; being phased out in favor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rstudio\/ggvis\">ggvis<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/ggmap\/ggmap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ggmap<\/a> R library, which plots latitude\/longitude data on maps<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/01\/21\/how-to-make-a-heatmap-a-quick-and-easy-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">good example<\/a> of how to make a heatmap (not geographical) with R&#8217;s heatmap library<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/r-nold.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/talking-about-elevation-one-can-also.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">useful example<\/a> of how to make 3D maps with R&#8217;s persp library<\/li>\n<li>Two tutorials (<a href=\"http:\/\/geography.uoregon.edu\/GeogR\/examples\/maps_examples02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-bloggers.com\/plot-maps-like-a-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>) on combining maps with data<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.revolutionanalytics.com\/2009\/11\/charting-time-series-as-calendar-heat-maps-in-r.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tutorial<\/a> on how to turn time series data into calendar heatmaps in R<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/polmeth.wustl.edu\/methodologist\/tpm_v20_n1.pdf\">Large Datasets and You,<\/a>&#8221; a primer on big data in R by Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>R + Javascript for Interactive Online Dataviz<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/shiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiny<\/a>, an R package for creating interactive graphics\u00a0with no (non-R) programming required<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/simplystatistics.org\/2013\/04\/02\/introducing-the-healthvis-r-package-one-line-d3-graphics-with-r\/\">healthvis<\/a>, an R package for creating D3-enabled versions of some common graph types with no (non-R) programming required<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rcharts.io\/index.html\">rCharts<\/a>, Ramnath Vaidyanathan&#8217;s Javascript-fueled interactive-graphics package for R<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plot.ly\/r\/\">Plotly API for R<\/a>\u00a0(see Plotly, above, for full description)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ggvis.rstudio.com\">ggvis<\/a>, an R package for creating interactive graphics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/christophergandrud.github.io\/d3Network\/\">D3Network<\/a>, an R package for creating network, tree, dendogram, and Sankey diagrams in D3<\/li>\n<li>The crazy-cool\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magesblog.com\/2015\/03\/pivot-tables-with-r.html\">rPivotTable package<\/a>\u00a0for interactive data visualization (watch the GIF to get a sense of its capabilities)<\/li>\n<li>The awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htmlwidgets.org\">htmlwidgets package<\/a> for using Javascript visualization libraries in R, R Markdown, and Shiny applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Why Dataviz Isn&#8217;t Enough<\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wikipedia article on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simpson's_paradox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simpson&#8217;s Paradox<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An intro chapter from Wainer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/chapters\/s8863.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Picturing the Uncertain World<\/a><\/em>, with five great examples of De Moivre&#8217;s equation in action<\/li>\n<li>A fantastic set of <a href=\"http:\/\/tylervigen.com\">spurious 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