Slender Means

Bloggers

Andrew Gelman Like the blog title says, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. All Bayes, All The Time.
John Myles White Author of Machine Learning for Hackers, Julia prosyletizer, and all-around smart guy.
Drew Conway Author of Machine Learning for Hackers. Mover and shaker in the NYC stats scene. Lover of German Shepherds. Tall.
Tim Hopper Tim is into OR and Mathematica™. If you want to know whether you should do a Ph.D. (you shouldn’t), go check out the great series of interviews he’s assembled.
Wes McKinney Creator of pandas. Budding data entrepeneur. Part in his hair: impeccable. His blogposts give the recipes for the magic sauce in pandas
John Cook Deep thoughts on math, programming, and, you know, life in general. A blogger’s blogger
Cosma Shalizi Book reviews, lecture notes, and hollow-tipped, snark-coated mind-bullets fired at statistics, economics, networks, and other topics
R Bloggers Like a firehose of R blogs. A lot of great stuff; some not-so-great stuff too

Anaconda A straightforward Python distro with all your data analysis libraries baked in. It might even cure your Python package-management blues.
IPython The console is powerful, sure. But the notebook is a game changer. Either way, IPython makes writing code fun and educational.
Pandas Doing data analysis with Python? Not using Pandas? What’s the matter with you?
Statsmodels Econometric models in Python. Where to go when you’re fighting off an R relapse. Featuring a great formula interface via Patsy
Scikit-learn Machine learning in Python. Great tools, great API, great documentation.
PyMC Markov Chain Monte Carlo with all the Pythonic goodness you crave.
Pelican Python static site generator. You’re looking at it now.

Mark Thoma The economics blogoshpere has a miniscule signal-to-noise ratio. Mark filters out the noise so you don’t go crazy.
Brad Delong You can never go wrong with the classics. Usually right, and if not, at least wrong in interesting ways.
Econbrowser Jim Hamilton and Menzie Chinn providing useful insights into macroeconomic affairs.

Smashing Magazine The place to go for cool web design tips.
I Love Typography Neat articles on typography.
Practical Typography Matthew Butterick is like a missionary bringing religion to the cannibals. Except instead of cannibals it’s people who underline text and put two spaces after periods. Go here and make your documents look better.
Typography for Lawyers The pre-cursor to Practical Typography. The font alternatives section is actually better here, I think. Not just for lawyers.
Adobe Kuler Make cool color schemes, save ‘em and share ‘em.
Colour Lovers Another great color scheming community.