Information Visualization

Stephen Few discusses how to turn a new discipline into a proper science in To Err Is Academic.

Bokeh, a promising Python InfoVis library.

Robert Kosara discusses the difficulty for non-entrenched people interested in visualization to find out what’s currently going on in the field.  He brainstorms a new kind of blog for Visualization research, which could be applied to any research field.

 

Neuroscience

I guess Lamarck wasn’t entirely wrong….

 

Women

Interesting discussion of lack of women presenting STEM channels.

A discussion of differences in male and female small business owners’ hiring practices.

 

Data Science

Data scientist gift guide from FlowingData.

Data science surpasses statistician on Google Trends