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  • Stately: A simple map font

    Maps  /  font, Stately

    Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

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    CS547

    Visualization  /  link

    The Stanford seminar lectures on human-computer interaction are all free to view online. They all look good, but lecture 6 on “living, breathing data” with Kim Rees from Periscopic should be of most interest.

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    Finding and Making Sense of Geospatial Data on the Internet

    Maps  /  link

    Steven Citron-Pousty provides a thorough primer on finding and making sense of geospatial data on the Internet.

  • Languages of New York, via Twitter

    Maps  /  language, Twitter

    In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

  • Learn about politics in your state with Open States

    Apps  /  government, Sunlight Foundation

    It’s not especially straightforward to know or find out what’s going on with…

  • Pope face composite

    Data Art  /  Amanda Cox, New York Times, pope

    With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, 116 cardinals from various regions have to come…

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    Advanced R development book

    Software  /  book, link

    Hadley Wickham has been working on a book that covers advanced programming in R, namely programming concepts and workflow and package development. It goes to print later this year, but the contents are freely available for consumption now.

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    The Art of Data-based Visual Narratives

    News  /  link, Nicholas Felton

    Nicholas Felton, who you probably know from his annual reports, is giving a two-day workshop on May 27 to 28 in Berlin on designing data-based visual narratives. It’s limited to 20 participants, so it’ll probably be an up close and personal experience.

  • Over-the-top quantified self

    Self-surveillance  /  Wired

    Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is…

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    What Data Can’t Do →

    Statistics  /  link

    A follow-up to this from David Brooks

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    Curved Paths →

    Visualization  /  link

    Possible path drawing in video games [via]

  • Map of Craigslist Missed Connections

    Maps  /  Craiglist, relationships

    On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

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    Tech data journalism bootcamp →

    News  /  link

    A thorough recap of the event

  • Starting a New Stack

    Personal  /  dissertation, PhD

    There’s a corner of my desk reserved for books, notes, papers, and other…

  • A dissection of movie trailers →

    Infographics  /  interactive, movies, New York Times

    Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Mike Bostock for The New York Times, analyzed…

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    MS in Data Science →

    Statistics  /  link

    New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013

  • U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale

    Maps  /  moon, scale, space

    How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

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    Geocoding in Google Spreadsheets →

    Apps  /  link

    Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source

  • Link

    Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly →

    Design  /  link

    Mostly ugly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

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    Using Transparency in R to Improve Clarity

    Tutorials  /  clarity, R, transparency

    When you plot a lot of data at once, points and lines can obscure others and hide patterns. Transparency can help reveal what is really there.

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