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    Todd provides 5 reasons why data visualization isn’t more prevalent:

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    At the bottom of each article on National Nine News (Australian MSN), there’s…

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    Matthew Block and Jonathan Corum from The New York Times use a network…

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  • Why Did Andy Dufresne Escape from Shawshank?

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    To tell a complete and meaningful story, you need to have and provide all the context.

  • What Field of Expertise Do You Study or Work In? [POLL RESULTS]

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    Thank you to everyone who responded to last week’s poll: What Field of…

  • NewsWare Launches to Explore and Interact with News on msnbc.com

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    NewsWare was launched yesterday on msnbc.com. It’s a set of apps, games, and…

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    In a deviation from the usual pie chart and standard tree map, this…

  • Weekend Minis for Your Lazy, Relaxing Weekend

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    Visualization Criticism – A criticism on the criticism on visualization. Robert Kosara, Fritz…

  • What Field of Expertise Do You Study or Work In? [POLL]

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    People from lots of different fields have emailed me during the course of…

  • Chart of the Day: A Breakdown of Facebook Applications

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    Of the 23,160 Facebook applications, I use about 5, but I probably wouldn’t…

  • Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish on Twitter

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    Inspired by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s We Feel Fine, and using data…

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    I studied electrical engineering and computer science in undergrad and now as a…

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    Patrick Ball, a human rights statistician, finds truth in numbers while analyzing and…

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    Maps, Statistical Visualization

    Wilson Miner and Paul Smith, two co-founders of Everyblock, post tutorials and a…

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