Nine-part series, so far, on getting started with the JavaScript library
Nathan Yau
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D3 Tutorials →
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Understanding Map Projections →
“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]
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A backstage tour of GGPlot2 →
Free webinar on February 8 from Hadley Wickham on his popular R graphics package. There’ll be a brief overview, sneak peek at new features, and lessons learned for good development.
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Eyeo Festival talks →
Leading up to this year’s event, most of the talks from last year’s are up. This year’s speaker lineup looks even better. A must if you’re interested in visualization outside of analytics.
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Texting on the toilet
I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating →
Proper ranking, instead of just using raw values [via]
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Venn Diagrams →
What they are, when to use them and when not to
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Visualizing popularity of Yahoo homepage stories
Yahoo is not what it used to be, but many parts of it…
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Munging, Modeling, and Visualizing Data with R →
Slides and some sample code for an intro to the software [via]
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Bloated Numbers →
Companies, especially tech ones, like to spout numbers, but when you actually look, the numbers are often meaningless. [via]
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More people want to learn statistics
Data is hot right now, so as you would expect, more people are…
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The Fixie Bike Index and hipsters
Priceonomics takes the association of fixie bikes to hipsters, and creates the Fixie…
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Displaying Data in the State of the Union →
Recap of the graphics used. The streaming enhanced version was struggling for me the other night, so I had to go with the non-chartified version.
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Unfolding →
Processing/Java library to create thematic maps and geovisualizations [via]
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Own and securely store your location with OpenPaths
There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it’s for…
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Beginner’s Guide to Building a Map Server →
custom maps are all the rage these days
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Data Hub →
Another potential open data source, by CKAN
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Words used in SOTU and Republican presidential candidates in debates
Jonathan Corum for The New York Times examines word usage by President Barack…
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When We Build →
When we build: “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” [via]
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In perspective: One hour of video uploaded to YouTube per second
YouTube surpassed the one hour of video uploaded per second threshold recently. To…