Blogs

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog

URL: 
http://ihrr.wordpress.com/
Mostly geographical/geological/climate related stories. Published by Durham University Dept of Geography.

blog.berndweiss.net

URL: 
http://www.quantisozblog.de/
A German blog on quantitative sociology

2 Michael Blastland

URL: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7883619.stm
Michael Blastland writes about statisics on BBC Online - check his archive for some good stories

1 BBC - Mark Easton

URL: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/
Mark Easton's blog on bbc.co.uk - he's the BBC home editor but uses a lot of statistics in his column

3 Bad Science

URL: 
http://www.badscience.net/
Ben Goldacre's blog. Add it to your bookmarks!

1 Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - visualized!

URL: 
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
A blog looking at information visualization by David MCandless (Guardian/Wired freelancer). I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!

1 Junk Charts

URL: 
http://junkcharts.typepad.com/
A Tufte fan analysing charts that make the news. Usefully linked.