(cross posted from daily Kos)
Below the fold, I’ve listed a few of my favorite blogs. But, you could see my favorites just by looking at my blog roll, so I’ve said a little about each.
And, in the comments, you can do the same – and if you tell us about them, that will help us all
Some that are similar to Booman, or to Kos
The Impeach Project
and
never in our names
are wonderful ideas: Impeaching Bush and Stopping Torture. I wish there were more posts on each – but hey! that means you can post there and have your diary be on the list for a long while! So go there and post!
Perhaps the most similar to dailyKos is Booman Tribune, but it’s slower, allowing (sometimes) a different type of discussion. And I love the lounges, which are different from Open Threads……
(see? I mentioned Booman on Big Orange)
Progressive Historians bills itself as “a sort of Daily Kos for the historical set”. I’m not an historian, but history is interesting, and so is this blog. A nice place
Street Prophets is Pastor Dan’s blog. I’m an atheist, but a respectful and curious atheist. I’ve always been made welcome there. Since the vast majority of Americans profess some kind of faith, we need to work together if we are going to get anywhere.
Now, for something completely different:
Statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science is run by Andrew Gelman at Columbia U. It’s got a lot of fairly theoretical stuff on elections and voting (also other stuff), at a not too high math level. For stats geeks like me, it’s great!
Good math, bad math devotes itself to ‘finding the fun in good math, squashing bad math and the fools who promote it’. Lots of interesting articles on debunking creationism, as well as a variety of topics related to math and programming.
Of all the sites devoted to polls and other political numbers, my favorite is Political Arithmetik, where Charles Franklin does a bang-up job of using graphs and text to illuminate what’s going on in the world of politics. This is what social science should be, but often isn’t: Informative, interesting, and compelling.
Information aesthetics takes a look at some really great graphs, and ways to use data and visualization in creative and beautiful ways.
finally, pictures of numbers has a lot of practical advice on making graphs better (which can also be used to catch graphs that are misleading….not that anyone ever uses graphs to mislead….no….)
