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Probably better ways to do this not in R, but you can create a bunch of GIFs and string them together

Improper map boundaries make extra bodies of water in the world

Import OpenStreetMap geographic elements into R [via]

A new and growing way to tell stories

D3 plugin for visualizing time series

Get ’em while they’re young

Gimme more circles, and I mean more

“we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.”

“Anything we can do to squeeze more utility out of the existing infrastructure is going to help.”

I guess it ended up not making much change to the field after all

Beware of the EXIF data

“Games are not just about making things funny.”

“the first pie chart to display empirical proportions and to differentiate the component parts by color”

Free Princeton course “designed to be a friendly introduction to very simple, very basic, fundamental concepts in statistics” [via]

Bitly chief data scientist on finding data and looking for stories in it [via]

Interview with Jake Porway, founder of Data Without Borders

Bowl, meet spoon.

Make basic online flow diagrams

Discussion thread on mapping with the JavaScript library

A subreddit for data