Data & Visualization blogs

John D. Cook, a consultant in applied math and statistics, writes short posts on numerical computing, probability, and programming.

Top post: Opening Black Boxes

Nathan Yau, a statistician, writes FlowingData, covering data visualization, charts, and interactive projects built on public data.

Top post: A Day in the Life of Americans

Nicky Case makes interactive explainers and games on topics like game theory, trust, voting, and learning.

Top post: Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

Andrew Gelman and colleagues at Columbia write about statistics, causal inference, research misconduct, and replication problems in social science.

Top post: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

The Pudding publishes visual, data-driven essays on culture, music, and society using interactive graphics.

Top post: The Human Terrain – 3D map of population

Evan Miller is a programmer and statistician who writes about applied math, A/B testing, ranking systems and user ratings.

Top post: How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Steven Wittens writes about 3D graphics, WebGL, math visualization and web technology, with interactive demos.

Top post: How to Fold a Julia Fractal

Tyler Vigen runs Spurious Correlations, a site charting unrelated data series that happen to track each other, such as cheese consumption and bedsheet deaths.

Top post: 15 Insane things that correlate with each other

Distill was an online journal publishing interactive, visual explanations of machine learning research, written by researchers.

Top post: Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)

Kissmetrics, an analytics company, publishes marketing and conversion-optimization articles on landing pages, page speed, customer lifetime value, and growth case studies.

Top post: Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page

Dynomight writes data-driven essays that analyze everyday topics like air purifiers, heritability, and health in detail.

Top post: The health benefits of better air

David McCandless's Information is Beautiful publishes data visualizations and infographics on topics such as data breaches, supplements, and musicians' earnings.

Top post: Snake-oil supplements?

Financial data site offering calculators and statistics on income, net worth percentiles, stock returns, and home prices in the US.

Top post: Income Percentile Calculator for the United States

Pingdom's company blog, publishing web performance statistics, tech industry charts, and posts on infrastructure, open source, and internet trends.

Top post: The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

Randall Munroe, creator of the xkcd webcomic, posts side projects, surveys, and essays that don't fit in the comic.

Top post: Results of XKCD Color Survey

Wolfram Research's blog on the Wolfram Language and Mathematica, with posts on features, data, and the company's licensing stance.

Top post: Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)

Nick Berry wrote DataGenetics, with math and data analyses of PIN numbers, puzzles, games, and QR codes.

Top post: Analysis of bank PIN numbers

Reddit's official company blog, covering site announcements, traffic numbers, engineering changes, and community policy.

Top post: Reddit implements "best" comment sorting based on score confidence intervals.

Andrew Gelman, a Columbia statistician, writes about statistical methods, flawed research, and problems in social science.

Top post: What has happened down here is the winds have changed

OkCupid's data team wrote the OkTrends posts, analyzing its dating data on looks, race, messaging, and profile photos.

Top post: Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)

Mike Bostock, creator of D3.js, writes about data visualization, algorithms, and tools for data workflows.

Top post: Visualizing Algorithms

Chris Stucchio, a data scientist and former high frequency trader, writes about statistics, algorithmic fairness, A/B testing, and trading.

Top post: A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1

PostHog, an open-source product analytics company, publishes its handbook, pay calculator, company story and product posts.

Top post: PostHog Company Handbook

R-bloggers is an aggregator of blog posts from the R programming community, covering statistics, data analysis, and machine learning.

Top post: Introduction to machine learning with R

Erik Bernhardsson, creator of Annoy and former Spotify engineer, writes on software estimation, hiring, data teams and machine learning.

Top post: Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

Researcher Chris Olah writes illustrated explanations of neural networks, LSTMs, backpropagation, information theory, and representation learning.

Top post: Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology

Nature's blog network, where journal staff and scientists post about research policy, publishing, data visualization, and science news.

Top post: White House announces new US open access policy

Jake VanderPlas, an astronomer and Python data scientist, writes about Python performance, statistics, and plotting with Matplotlib.

Top post: Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Epoch AI is a research group that publishes data and analysis on AI trends, including compute, costs, energy use and benchmarks.

Top post: How much energy does ChatGPT use?

Andrei Kashcha (anvaka) builds interactive data visualizations such as maps of Reddit and GitHub, city road drawings and software galaxies.

Top post: Map of Reddit

The company behind Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool, posts product news, hiring notices and security incident reports.

Top post: Jobs

Randy Olson, a data scientist, writes data-driven posts and visualizations on topics like gender and college majors, road trips, and Waldo.

Top post: Here’s Waldo: Computing the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo

The World Bank's official blogs, covering development economics, poverty, education, health, and open data with analysis and data tools.

Top post: From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria

Revolution Analytics' blog on the R language, statistics, and data science, with news, tutorials, and examples.

Top post: The plural of anecdote is data, after all

Google's official blog for Google Analytics, announcing features such as real-time reports, Data Studio, and Analytics Academy.

Top post: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

David Kriesel is a German computer scientist who writes about data analysis, neural networks, and technical investigations like Xerox scanner errors.

Top post: Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

Kieran Healy, a sociologist, writes about data analysis, visualization, plain-text workflows, and social science.

Top post: Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

Every Noise at Once is a solo-run site by Glenn McDonald that maps music genres as an algorithmically generated scatter plot.

Top post: Every Noise at Once – an algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of musical genre

Jay Alammar writes illustrated visual explanations of machine learning models, including transformers, BERT, GPT-2, word2vec and Stable Diffusion.

Top post: The Illustrated Transformer

Jason Davies, a developer and data visualization specialist, builds interactive D3.js demos of maps, curves, algorithms and math patterns.

Top post: Animated Bézier Curves

Greg Linden, an early Amazon engineer, writes about search, recommendation systems, and information retrieval, plus tech industry commentary.

Top post: Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic

Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, writes about data tools, columnar formats and software development with AI agents.

Top post: Apache Arrow and the “Things I Hate About Pandas”

Economists at the St. Louis Fed write about economic data from FRED, covering money supply, wages, productivity, jobs and markets.

Top post: What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?

Nate Silver, the statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight, writes about polls, politics, elections, social media and forecasting on his Substack.

Top post: Trump approval ratings nate silver bulletin

Justin O'Beirne, a cartographer, writes detailed visual comparisons of Google Maps and Apple Maps and tracks Apple's new map rollout.

Top post: Google Maps' Moat

Mark Litwintschik writes benchmarks of databases and analytics tools on large datasets like billion taxi rides, plus geospatial and satellite data work.

Top post: Summary of the 1.1B Taxi Rides Benchmarks

The Jupyter project's official blog announces new kernels, tools, and features for notebooks and JupyterLab.

Top post: Interactive workflows for C++ with Jupyter

Allen Downey, a computer science professor and author, writes about statistics, Bayesian methods, and Python.

Top post: The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)

Data Driven Investor is a Medium publication with varied posts on programming, data analytics, PWAs, Bitcoin, and startups.

Top post: The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

David Smith, an independent iOS developer behind many apps including Widgetsmith, writes about app development, Apple Watch and iOS adoption statistics.

Top post: iOS Version Stats

Nick Maggiulli, chief operating officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management, writes data-driven posts on personal finance and investing.

Top post: Even God Couldn't Beat Dollar-Cost Averaging

Medium publication with community-written tutorials and opinion pieces on machine learning, data science, and deep learning.

Top post: Thoughts after taking the Deeplearning.ai courses

Aldo Cortesi, a security and software developer, writes about visualizing binaries and sorting algorithms and about code, tooling, and security.

Top post: Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves

Stitch Fix's data science and engineering team writes about ETL, recommendation algorithms, Kafka, Bayesian forecasting, and warehouse optimization.

Top post: Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL

Cloudera's company blog covers Hadoop, Impala, Kudu and data science techniques, written by its engineers.

Top post: Cloudera Impala: Real-Time Queries in Apache Hadoop

Simply Statistics is written by biostatisticians Jeff Leek, Roger Peng and Rafa Irizarry on statistics, data science and research reliability.

Top post: Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions

Insight Data Science's blog is written by fellows and staff of a training program for moving PhDs into data science and AI roles.

Top post: How to build your own CDN with Kubernetes

Max Woolf, a data scientist, writes data-driven analyses of Hacker News and experiments with LLMs, image generation and prompting.

Top post: The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments

Flurry's company blog published mobile app analytics data on app usage, revenue, and platform trends until its analytics service shut down.

Top post: 96% iOS 14.5 App Tracking Opt-Out Rate

SparkToro is run by Rand Fishkin and publishes audience research and data on search, social media, and online advertising.

Top post: Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click