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In August I was a discussant on a panel about Steven Lukes’s recent book, The Diversity of Morals.

In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States.

I’m teaching MPTC again this semester and have been developing a few workflow slides.

In anticipation of the second edition of Data Visualization, which is coming later this year from Princeton University Press, version 2.0.0 of my socviz package is now on CRAN.

I gave the first of this year’s Ihaka Lectures at the University of Auckland this past July.

Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber makes a passing observation about the Apple Sports app: I’ve got some gripes about certain specific aspects of Apple Sports.

Snow in Inwood, New York.

Pie charts are bad, as any fule kno.

The five boroughs of New York City can be informally or formally carved up into many different pieces, depending on what it is that you’re doing.

After the parking signs last time, here is a subway sign.

Charles Fourier was an early socialist utopian, part of the French tradition of thinkers who came up with various schemes for the complete reorganization of society on more rational grounds, and whose views now read to us as an unstable admixture of obvio…

I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months.

I’ve written a second edition of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, which ideally should come out with Princeton University Press later this year.

The Socio-Economic Review has published a book symposium on The Ordinal Society with contributions from Nitsan Chorev, J.P.

This past September I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf; it’s now on YouTube to watch.

Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election gave me the opportunity to draw a few maps, and also to learn a bit about incorporating additional spatial data into maps drawn in R.

Trends in the immameco question.

Here I continue my efforts to design visualizations that are as poorly-suited as possible to being displayed on phones.

Regular readers know that I maintain gssr and gssrdoc, two packages for R.

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York.

Last year I wrote about cleaning some data from the NHTSA FARS database, the system that tracks information about road accidents in the United States.

I’m teaching my Modern Plain Text Computing course this semester and so I’m on the lookout for small examples that I can use to show some of the ordinary techniques we regularly use when working with tables of data.