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Convert flat data into nested tree structures

Robert Kosara’s response to this

Some fun ones

Rundown of the struggling state of those rooted in the paper medium

Process behind a couple of Periscopic pieces with non-profit organization, on endangered species

“will need to scale in terms of performance, density, and interactivity”

New weekly from xkcd, answering all the important questions of the universe

Unlike Daniel LaRusso, most students need context for the importance and meaning of concepts to soak through [via]

You know, the one with all the lines and shading

For airports, shopping, and such

Researchers trying to get kids to understand randomness

His name is Conway. Drew Conway. He takes his data open, not closed.

Javascript library by Open Knowledge Foundation for building data applications in the browser

Good primer

NASA satellite images of before and after the lights went out

Making use of the Matrix and glmnet packages

Stamen updated their custom black and white map tiles, looking even classier

Free course on extracting meaning from data

Data for 215k responses from 13k polls

Avoiding the knee jerk scoff