Open Data

Book Review: Storytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar Presentation, by Cole Nussba

Knaflic deconstructs presentations into three easy-to-remember phases: Plan, Create, and Deliver. She covers the complete presentation proce

Book Review: How to Lie with Maps, by Mark Monmonier

Not only is it easy to lie with maps. It’s essential. To portray meaningful relationships for a complex, three-dimensional world on a...

Book Review: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo

Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...

Book Review: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff

If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...

Book Review: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford

Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are...

Housing Data Project

We recently released a final report, prepared by Allen Lang and Frances Astorian, from a Housing Data Project analyzing the change in...

Book Review: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez

One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the...

Book Review: Better Data Visualizations, by Jonathan Schwabish

Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (2021), by Jonathan Schwabish (Senior Fellow at the Urban...

UVA School of Data Science Capstone: Deployment of a LoRaWAN-Based IoT Air Quality Sensor Network

For the last academic year, we worked with researchers from the University of Virginia to use the Internet of Things in examining air...