Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…
Nathan Yau
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Wind motion patterns animated
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How to Hand Edit R Plots in Inkscape
You can control graph elements with code as you output things from R, but sometimes it is easier to do it manually. Inkscape, an Open Source alternative to Adobe Illustrator, might be what you are looking for.
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Strata 2012 live stream →
Sold out conference, but you can catch some of the talks here
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Really old maps online
Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…
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Web scraping with Node →
Lightning talk on grabbing data from pages with JavaScript [via]
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Arrested for breaking the law of large numbers →
Calling out The New York Times for an incorrect reference to the Law of Large Numbers. Also this
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Stephen Colbert on Target and predictive analytics
“Target doesn’t just know when you’re buying sheets. They know what you’re doing…
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What is visualization? →
A quick take on what visualization is to me
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Infochimps launches big data platform →
Making public the tools they developed internally to handle data themselves
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Reporters need data skills →
New York Times editor Aron Pilhofer on using data as the source of reports. “It’s not rocket science.” [via]
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Feltron Report 2010/2011 is out
When Nicholas Felton headed over to Facebook last year, I thought we’d seen…
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5-minute Guide →
Quick steps on the graphic design part of visualization from Lev Manovich
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Basketball net will rate the force of dunks during Slam Dunk Contest
Sometimes power dunks don’t get much credit, because it’s hard to see on…
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Maps with R →
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Giant globe display
Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…
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Color Oracle →
Desktop tool that changes colors of entire screen to simulate color blindness
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Changing face of plastic surgery
Many people aren’t happy with their face or body, and a proportion of…
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How to stop ad trackers →
Is all this tracking and predicting getting out of hand?
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The Geek Shall Lin-herit the Earth →
Maybe taking the Lin lessons a little too far, but oh what the hey, I’m game.
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Your Life as Data →
The number of tools to record bits of your life in numbers grows, and it’s starting to look less weird.