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JavaScript library for choropleth, proportional symbol, cartogram, dot density, and isoline mapping

“Wolfram|Alpha is now on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”

Built on top of D3 for easier time series charts

Open source alternative to the high-priced commercial GIS software

Six-week post-doc training fellowship to form bridges across academia and practice

The Guardian Datablog posted a choropleth map; readers helped them fix it

Loss for the Bureau, a gain for the university

How they play a role in human-computer interaction and evaluating them

The steps behind making NYT map in R, showing where Rick Santorum stood before he suspended his campaign

From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github

Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections

Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser

“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]

Seems promising, if you have access to Science

“I have a goal in life: To rid the world of bad PowerPoint slides.”

An almost two-hour long, analytics-focused talk

Tips and tricks for making your own maps

More organized and less chaotic than previously thought

Make your own local Ben Fry-esque All Streets

How Square built a responsive analytics page