Comments on: Data ain’t just for geeks anymore http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/06/28/data-aint-just-for-geeks-anymore/ social commentary, gadgets, art, travel and whatever else comes to mind Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:56:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: New Economist http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/06/28/data-aint-just-for-geeks-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-13501 New Economist Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:03:08 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/06/28/data-aint-just-for-geeks-anymore/#comment-13501 <strong>Data fun for all the family</strong> OK, I confess - I'm a data junky. So I am very thankful to Jim Gibbon (via Eszter Hargittai of Crooked Timber) for posting about Gapminder. It provides the best visualisation of data I have ever seen. Here is Jim's post:I’ve been blown away this mo... Data fun for all the family

OK, I confess – I’m a data junky. So I am very thankful to Jim Gibbon (via Eszter Hargittai of Crooked Timber) for posting about Gapminder. It provides the best visualisation of data I have ever seen. Here is Jim’s post:I’ve been blown away this mo…

]]> By: Crooked Timber » » 129 Wallace http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/06/28/data-aint-just-for-geeks-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-13500 Crooked Timber » » 129 Wallace Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:22:41 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/06/28/data-aint-just-for-geeks-anymore/#comment-13500 [...] No thanks to Jim Gibbon for siphoning off a few hours of my time today with that Gapminder pointer. Nonetheless, I wanted to send him a shoutout and welcome him to blogging seeing that he comes from a bit of Crooked Timber lineage. Kieran and I shared an office for a couple of years while in graduate school at Princeton. And it is in this same office that Jim now spends a good chunk of his graduate student days (granted, right now he’s doing summer research in Germany). Welcome to blogging, Jim! [...] [...] No thanks to Jim Gibbon for siphoning off a few hours of my time today with that Gapminder pointer. Nonetheless, I wanted to send him a shoutout and welcome him to blogging seeing that he comes from a bit of Crooked Timber lineage. Kieran and I shared an office for a couple of years while in graduate school at Princeton. And it is in this same office that Jim now spends a good chunk of his graduate student days (granted, right now he’s doing summer research in Germany). Welcome to blogging, Jim! [...]

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