Links

Script to fill in the gaps between unevenly spaced points

JavaScript library for reactive documents, as seen in Bret Victor’s talk

Find a balance between the two

Lovely set of slides by Sha Hwang on the awe from from data

Old but all still applicable

New Knight News Challenge is focused on data. $5m in funding this round.

Hadley Wickham started posting uses of the popular R graphics package

Gotta get it in the right format before you visualize anything

Probably after seeing what Jer Thorp did as one at NYT, the shortlink service is out the lookout

jQuery plugin that associates HTML vocabulary “making it frighteningly easy to make web-native geographic maps”

Makes using Google Maps API trivial

Her workflow at NYT

An argument for defaulting to density plots. Doesn’t pan out for smaller datasets

Impressive graph drawing library. Check out the demos linked part way down.

Mostly in-house software by 422 South [via]

Reality check for what power you actually gain from data

Focus on what questions users are asking, and design around the answers

Deleted tweets from politicians

Because most people don’t give a crap

Another infographic-building site. Not optimistic, but maybe worth a look.