56 | Amanda Cox on Working With R, NYT Projects, Favorite Data
\u201cI'd give two of my left fingers for this data\u201d - Amanda Cox on the show :)\n\nWe have the great Amanda Cox from the New York Times on the show this time!\n\nAmanda is a graphic editor at NYT and she is behind many of the amazing data graphics that the New York Times has produced in recent years.\n\nIn the show we talk about her background in statistics and how she ended up at the Times. We discuss how she uses R software to collect, analyze, and visualize data, and her thoughts on other tools. We also talk about how data graphics are produced at NYT, with lots of funny stories.\n\nDon't miss the parts about the "what, where, when" of data and the "net joy" concept.\n\nLots a data wisdom in this show!\n\n---\nThis episode is sponsored by Tableau Software, helping people connect to any kind of data, and visualize it on the fly - You can download a free trial at http://tableau.com/datastories \u2013 check the new Tableau 9!\n---\n\nLINKS\n\nHadley Wickham - http://had.co.nz/\nR Studio - http://shiny.rstudio.com/\nJake Barton: Local Projects - http://localprojects.net/about/\nNYT Project: The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares\nNYT Project: You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children\u2019s College Chances\nAmanda and Kevin\u2019s NYU Data Journalism Course\nQuadrigram - http://www.quadrigram.com/ (tool for data-driven web sites)\nJeff Heer and his IDL Lab at UW - http://idl.cs.washington.edu/\nFiveThirtyEight - http://fivethirtyeight.com/\nThe Upshot - http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/?_r=0