I couldn’t be more happy and excited about the result of this year’s Malofiej Awards. The Malofiej Awards are the international Grammies of the infographics world.

I’m most excited about receiving a Peter Sullivan Award, or best in show, for the Ebb and Flow in the Box Office published in Feb 2008. I worked on this graphic with Amanda Cox, who did very well overall at Malofiej.

In addition to this, Map of Olympic Medals, a graphic I put a lot of time into, received a Silver Medal in the “Features” category.

These graphics, as well as the other award recipients, will be published in a book in the near future — I recommend keeping an eye out for it!

This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis.

Read more about our findings (and become a fan) at the Facebook Data Page
and my coworker Cameron’s blog at Overstated.net.