Web resources for critically analysing data
1. Data journalism
FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight is the full website version of what started as Nate Silver's blog for the New York Times. Pitching itself as 'data driven journalism', the site provides news, sport, and pop culture features with a data backbone.
The Guardian datablog
Here, journalists from the Guardian dig deeper into the data behind the story. What's really nice about this one is that they will often give you the data they used so you can play with it yourself and build on the story.
2. Data visualisation
- Visualising Data - Resources Page and Blog
- Information is Beautiful (we also have the related book)
- Flowing Data (has some great tutorials - we also have the related book)
- The Guardian Data Blog
- datastori.es - bi-weekly data viz podcast
- Eager Eyes
- Help Me Viz - get help from the crowd with your visualisation
- WTF Viz - data visualisations that make no sense