Interesting Reads

Often while reading for the posts  on my blog or while reading generally, I come across interesting articles on subjects of interests to us.  Here are links to those articles. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.!. Articles added during the month have  this as a text background color.


Graphs and Charts

1. Good Graphs for Better Business - W. S. CLeveland and N.I. Fisher
2. Your Random Numbers - Getting started with Processing and Data Visualization - Jer Thorp
3. Line Straight Wrong - Nicholas Bissantz
4. Words, pictures, and the visual display of scientific information : Getting back to the basics of information design - Lena Groeger 
5. Numbed by Numbers - Paul Slovic
6. Infographics could change your political views - Visual Journalism
7. Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thoikol Engineers on the Challenger -  Wade Robison, Roger Boisjoly, David Hoeker, Stefan Young

Statistical Measures and Concepts

1. Mind the Median - Carl Bialik
2. Medical statistics don't always Mean what they seem to Mean - John Allen Paulos
3. The Flaw of Averages - Sam Savage
4. The Paradox of Averages - John Allen Paulos
5. Chances are - Steven Strogatz
6. Opportunity Lost [ linked to "Chances are" above] - Kaiser Fung
7. A Statistical Test Gets Its Closeup -Carl Bialik
8. Sampling Error, the unspoken issue behind small number changes in the news - Ben Goldacre
9. The Language of Data, the Math of Retail, - Kaiser Fung

Data Analysis

1. Redefinition : Humpty Dumpty and the News -John Allen Paulos
2. How to Read Charts - House of Commons [Statistical Literacy Guide]
3. How to spot spin..... - House of Commons [Statistical Literary Guide]
4. The Popcorn Route to recovery  : BBC. News. UK. Magazine 
5. Redefinition; Humpty Dumpty and the News - John Allen Paulos
6. The Paradox of Averages - Jon Allen Paulos
7. The Hot Spotters - Atul Gawande
8. Why Saving Lives can Lead to Bad Statistics - Rebecca Goldin & M. Adams
9. The Bell Curve behind the Bell Curve - Rick Nevin

"Plain English"

1. How to write in plain English - Plain English Campaign
2. A Plain English Handbook: How to create clear SEC Documents - The SEC

Design Stuff

1. Clean up your mess: A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone 
2. John Sculley on Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript

Other stuff

1. The power of  Negative Thinking, Atul Gawande
2. The Gripping Statistic : How to Make your data Matter - Dan and Chip Heath
3. Don't Solve Problems--Copy Success - Dan and Chip Heath
4. Positive Deviance - Jerry Sternin
5. The Pianist at the shopping centre - Part 1 - Paulo Coehlo
6. The Pianist at the Shopping Center - Part 2 - Paulo Coehlo