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Chris F. Masse — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:23:13 +0000

1. DATA MUNGING: slice and dice, transform, extract and work with data in a facile, fluid way.
2. DATA MODELING: taking a set of data and being able to develop a hypothesis about a pattern in the data and to test that hypothesis with statistical tools.
3. DATA VISUALIZATION: tell a story or build a narrative visually.

How do predictive analytics and data science fit together?

Hans Rosling’s data visualization techniques… are… amazing. – [VIDEO]

Chris F. Masse — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:50:59 +0000

UPDATE: Criticism.

Do not fuck with data visualization

Chris F. Masse — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:21:18 +0000

Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you.

TED: Awesome Knowledge Videos

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:04:28 +0000

What are you going to do this Summer? My advice: Don’t watch TV, don’t go to the movies.

Instead, download all the TED videos from YouTube. (Use Video Download Helper to download the videos on your hard drive.)

I have downloaded about 200 videos. Amazing people.

Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry

Steven Johnson: The Web and the city

Hans Rosling: No more boring data

Qi Zhang’s electrifying organ performance:

If David Pennock were to seek innovation in prediction market data visualization…

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:36:48 +0000

… he would associate this with that.

Prediction Markets & Data Visualization

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:01:18 +0000

Spot that that guy didn’t say, “I monitor a prediction market“. He said, “I monitor a chart“.

InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair, TradeFair, NewsFutures and HubDub have a huge work to do to improve their charts. In the future, they will output richer charts. Customizable, dynamic, compound charts, with news markers.

Keith Anderson’s got some good DATA VISUALIZATION links for you.

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:08:23 +0000

http://infosthetics.com/
http://flowingdata.com/
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
http://benfry.com/writing/
http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/
http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/
http://blog.many-eyes.com/
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/
http://simplecomplexity.net/
http://leebyron.com/how/
http://eagereyes.org/
http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/
http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/bertinie/visuale/
http://well-formed-data.net/
http://www.numberpix.com/
http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/
http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
http://informationandvisualization.de/
http://designnotes.info/
http://perceptualedge.com/blog/
http://shiffman.net/
http://abeautifulwww.com/
http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/
http://www.bestiario.org/blog/

(Via Tom Carden)

Keith Anderson (Senior Analyst at RNG)

The Most Hilarious Thing I Read This Morning

Chris F. Masse — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:26:49 +0000

A 6-year-old report about how he enjoyed being invited at Robin Hanson’s party —boring like hell.

Makes me think that the field of prediction markets should research more on data visualization. Kids like great visuals. Boisterous blogging adults haven’t computed that, yet. When’s the last time you saw great visuals at Marginal Revolution or Overcoming Bias?

Think data visualization, folks.

Bo Cowgill reads some blogs on that topic, I believe. He could give us some good links, one day.

UPDATE: Mike Linksvayer’s take on the Robin Hanson incident the Marginal Revolution post. (See also Mike’s comment, below.)

Huge quality improvement (well, considering that they started from 1,000 meters below the sea level) in the BetFair blog, lead by their resident prediction market guy, Mike Robb

Chris F. Masse — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:11:25 +0000

The guy has shown commitment. Look at the semi-long list of posts he has produced.
The guy has finally understood that people want red meat —dynamic charts (i.e., self-updating) that link to the said prediction markets.
I observe, in passing, that their Pennsylvania compound chart is still alive (which is good), but, alas, the individual Clinton and Obama charts have died less than 24 hours after the primary elections. (I have strongly regretted this situation, to say the least, as you remember. If you want to compare BetFair with the other prediction exchanges on that technical matter, click here to see all the expired Pennsylvania charts.)
They have output an embeddable compound chart with news markers, as I blogged about, some time ago. It’s a great idea. Except that their political comments are childish, and that BetFair should let any external blogger add their own news markers.
The contrast is now great between Mike Robb’s blog posts (which now have a vital data visualization component) and the other contributors’ writings (which are just raw texts sent over e-mail for publication on the BetFair blog). Look at this dull Monte-Carlo story and this pale Champions League article. I suppose that these contributors are external, freelance journalists, who moonlight for BetFair. By contrast, Mike Robb (whose real HammerSmith name is “Michael Robb“) is a resident BetFair employee, who has access to, what I would call, the betting exchange culture (which includes spying on Midas Oracle for ideas). So, the fix to apply to the BetFair blog is simple: Fire all the external writers and get more of in-house BetFair writers like Michael Robb. Then, unleash the innovation gate (again, by spying on Midas Oracle for ideas).
So, the story of the BetFair blog (created in August 2007) is a story of arrogant incompetence. Today, (that is, 9 months later), for the first time, a semblant of sanity is piercing thru the crass.