Links

Hacks/Hackers event in Cambridge, MA: 5/30 at 6pm

Open source, open data, open visualization?

Suggests plotting density, not points

Hysterical TEDx talk about words using Google n-grams for research

A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery

Upload and analyze location data from OpenPaths

An open-source lightweight JavaScript library to draw graphs

What does the geography of incarceration in the US look like?

This is a dataset, here are some free tools, now be a data journalist

From The Guardian

From Mike Bostock

Huge database may help answer the question “Why is health care so expensive?”

Thoughts on copying, inspiration, and attribution by Andy Kirk

From Stanford’s d.school

Jon Udell’s thoughts on quantitative literacy

Visuals in public education

Visualize This didn’t make the cut, but a good list nonetheless

International Space Apps Challenge

Infochimps secret sauce

Both in-person and online courses