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(This article was originally published at Junk Charts, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Junk Charts is made by Kaiser Fung, the Web’s first data visualization critic. I discuss what makes graphics work, and how to make them better. Think chartjunk + junk...

The Ethics of Data Analytics by Kaiser Fung. Twenty-one slides on ethics by Kaiser Fung, author of: Junk Charts (data visualization blog), and Big Data, Plainly Spoken (comments on media use of statistics). Fung challenges you to reach your own ethical...

Kaiser Fung, author of a new book, Numbersense a previous book, Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do and the popular blog, Junk Charts was my guest on two recent podcast. Kaiser is a professional...

Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, and Chris Park, Data Scientist, report back from the course, Encounters with Big Data: An Introduction to using Big Data in the Social Sciences, held in...

Data is fast becoming the currency for success in today’s technology-driven world, thanks to an explosion in the availability of data generated from traditional and non-traditional sources, as well as advancements in the tools to collect, store...