Stats and Data Visualization Blogs

• FlowingData: data visualization
• Junk Charts: the name says it, examples of not-so-good visualizations and discussion on how to improve them
• The Guardian Data Blog: interesting data visualizations for news stories as well as links to the actual data
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Blog of Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and political science at Columbia University, often higher level statistics but interesting commentary
• Simply Statistics: blog of three biostatistics professors (Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry), posts discussing science/popular writing, linking to inspiring articles, and advice for up-and-coming statisticians
• Xi'an's Og an attempt at bloggin, nothing more: blog of Christian Robert, Professor of Statistics at Universite Paris-Dauphine (France), often higher level statistics but interesting commentary
• R-bloggers: a central hub of content collected from bloggers who write about R