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I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of

by mcantor 17y ago

I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of communication success correlated with user photograph traits. Is there a site devoted to Tufteian data visualizations and analyses like this? I'd bookmark the hell out of its RSS feed.

smokinn 17y ago
I'm not sure we'll see many more of the OkCupid posts hit the front page. I think some sort of filter may have been added. I recently submitted their latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 and it got upvoted a lot in the first hour (more than others that did make the front page) but for some reason never made it to the front. Which is a bit sad because I think it was their most interesting one yet. (And the visual aids were extremely well done.)
- andrewljohnson 17y ago
  Really? The OKCupid posts were some of my favorite articles on HN in a while. I wonder if it's you who is marked as a spammer somehow, as opposed to the OKCupid blog. I can't imagine why someone would want to blacklist that site, but I could imagine HN's capricious, opaque, oft-changing spam filter could have nailed you personally for no reason at all.
tyskis 17y ago
http://flowingdata.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ is a pretty nice blog about data visualization. Both for reposts and commentary of other sources, and some original content. Some of http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload/ http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload/ posts are pretty amusing.
Sukotto 17y ago
Personally, I rely on http://chartporn.org/ http://chartporn.org/ for my daily dose of data visualization. About: A collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys -- with a focus on economics and graphic design. Enormous thanks to the bloggers who help find all this stuff, and the wonderful researchers, analysts, and graphic artists who create them.

by mcantor 17y ago

smokinn 17y ago

I'm not sure we'll see many more of the OkCupid posts hit the front page. I think some sort of filter may have been added. I recently submitted their latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 and it got upvoted a lot in the first hour (more than others that did make the front page) but for some reason never made it to the front. Which is a bit sad because I think it was their most interesting one yet. (And the visual aids were extremely well done.)

andrewljohnson 17y ago
Really? The OKCupid posts were some of my favorite articles on HN in a while. I wonder if it's you who is marked as a spammer somehow, as opposed to the OKCupid blog. I can't imagine why someone would want to blacklist that site, but I could imagine HN's capricious, opaque, oft-changing spam filter could have nailed you personally for no reason at all.

tyskis 17y ago

http://flowingdata.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ is a pretty nice blog about data visualization. Both for reposts and commentary of other sources, and some original content. Some of http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload/ http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload/ posts are pretty amusing.

Sukotto 17y ago

Personally, I rely on http://chartporn.org/ http://chartporn.org/ for my daily dose of data visualization. About: A collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys -- with a focus on economics and graphic design. Enormous thanks to the bloggers who help find all this stuff, and the wonderful researchers, analysts, and graphic artists who create them.