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Just imagine the possibilities.

An argument against the buzz around the dire need for data scientists; some stuff to disagree with but some good points

Big data is just a bunch of numbers; computers will do the brute force labor, but you still have to use your brain.

This is how marketers see visualization and information graphics. Glorified spam, kind of.

Download the book as a PDF with R code supplement

Tickets don’t go on sale until February, but the first half of the speaker list was revealed. Looks great.

Highlights from the world’s best graphics department in journalism

Using powers for good to improve education

It usually moves the other direction.

Finally, Twitter rolls out a feature to download all of your tweets as one file. They’re slowly making it available to users.

A simple iPhone app to keep track of what you want and store it in CSV format

A wide variety of datasets you can actually do stuff with

Primer on network diagrams. See also.

This looks promising. Benefits include: stability, anonymous access, and no rate limiting.

Using k-means to group multiple symbols that overlap and clutter

Free online course from Code School for getting started with R

The “Instagram of maps” or more appropriately, works on mobile

Impact of vaccines plotted over time shows obvious impact [via]

Use k-means to find most used colors

Write C++ code and easily connect with R for more speed [via]