Archive for January, 2010

I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game

January 3rd, 2010

This is pretty nerdy, but I’m getting to really love typography — serif this, ascender that, kern this, forge that. It all sounds so… foreign. Oooohh. So, when I heard about I Love Typography‘s new little online game, cleverly titled “The Rather Difficult Font Game” I had to give it a go.

The Rather Difficult Font Game: screenshot

There’s even an iPhone version!

While spending time playing the game, I like to think I’m honing my typographic skills (such as they are!), but having a blast doing it. When my point counts get higher, I might post them here… Until then, you’ll have to keep guessing, just like I do in the game. :)

Interactive data visualizations with R

January 3rd, 2010

Jeroen Ooms, a visiting scholar at UCLA’s Department of Statistics, has been very busy with R — he has two wonderfully slick online apps where users are able (for free) to visualize datasets using R’s ggplot. If you’re interested in R, stocks, or just data visualization, you’ll find something of real value in his applications.

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