R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a…
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Resources for Getting Started with R
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HTMLAPL →
jQuery plugin that associates HTML vocabulary “making it frighteningly easy to make web-native geographic maps”
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gmaps.js →
Makes using Google Maps API trivial
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Tennis racket mountain range chart
By Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comics. This is what happens when you don’t…
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Interview with Amanda Cox →
Her workflow at NYT
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Don’t use scatterplots →
An argument for defaulting to density plots. Doesn’t pan out for smaller datasets
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VivaGraphJS →
Impressive graph drawing library. Check out the demos linked part way down.
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How a Virus Changes the World
From Take Part, a short video on how a virus spreads and its…
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Tasty Tweets makes smoothies based on trending fruits
During a one-week visualization course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Kat…
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How maps were made for America Revealed →
Mostly in-house software by 422 South [via]
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What data can and cannot do →
Reality check for what power you actually gain from data
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Dashboards talk too much →
Focus on what questions users are asking, and design around the answers
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Reverse engineering targeted emails from 2012 Campaign
After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…
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Politwoops →
Deleted tweets from politicians
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Typewriter installation remembers killed journalists
Julian Koschwitz uses a typewriter linked to data from the Committee to Protect…
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America Revealed on PBS
I’m not sure how I missed this, but PBS’s America Revealed, which has…
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Why no one reads stat literature →
Because most people don’t give a crap
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Meshu makes physical objects with your location
Location data typically stays within the realm of online maps and digital check-ins,…
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Hans Rosling one-minute TED talk
Screw the sword swallowing and giant screen of moving bubbles. Just get Rosling…
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Piktochart →
Another infographic-building site. Not optimistic, but maybe worth a look.