The steps behind making NYT map in R, showing where Rick Santorum stood before he suspended his campaign
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Mapping Process →
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A century of ocean shipping animated
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
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Text Processing with MapReduce →
From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github
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Visualizing Twitter →
Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections
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What makes good data visualization →
Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser
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Design is a Job →
“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]
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Too many axes
Kaiser Fung talks about the suck of overlaying plots to show a relationship.…
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How recruiters look at your resume
In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes…
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How businesses approach infographics
The Washington Post asked three “young entrepreneurs” how their company uses infographics. They…
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Why Statistics? →
Seems promising, if you have access to Science
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Data Stories →
“I have a goal in life: To rid the world of bad PowerPoint slides.”
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Designing Data Visualizations →
An almost two-hour long, analytics-focused talk
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Under the Sea, Under the Sea
In usual xkcd fashion, Randall Munroe plots the depths of lakes and oceans,…
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Metal bands per capita
By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…
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geo-how-to →
Tips and tricks for making your own maps
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Manhattan-like grids in the brain →
More organized and less chaotic than previously thought
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Conducting Demystified
The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab,…
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The Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box, a statistician known for his body of work in time…
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Streets Visualized →
Make your own local Ben Fry-esque All Streets
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Open thread: Are we drowning or swimming in data?
After reading another article about the flood of data that we’re drowning and…