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Learn to code and edit wisely

As the big G charges for map services, some applications are going custom

Improve code performance, knowing what R is actually doing [via]

As expected, the newspaper and site win top honors in the annual awards with Best of Show going to their graphics on Guantanamo detainees

Background from Fathom on their latest piece with GE, which explores keywords in annual reports

JavaScript library to easily draw network graphs

A lesson in not getting too obsessed with your tools and losing sight of original design goals

Using image processing in the software, someone figured out how to find the elusive one in an image [via]

Periscopic follows up ten months after their first side-by-side. For maximum reach across browsers, Flash is still ahead, but HTML5 has made huge strides in a short amount of time.

“A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element”

Code examples and summaries to find groups in your data, such as the one that likes wings and beer and the other that likes tofu and soba noodles [via]

JavaScript library for fast filtering of large multivariate datasets and multiple views

Donated by users for research in recommendation systems

Inspired by D3, a visualization library in Clojure

There’s going to be an API for the monitoring band. I want to get one now.

Director of Research at Google talks data, back from 2010 and how they use it the big G [via]

And you can join them; they posted a job in the forums [via]

Examples of poorly conceived graphics; easy to find these days

Redesign of popular brands. I like the one for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

A small blip in the otherwise straight Papuan border; from Frank Jacobs’ Borderlines op-ed column that has apparently been going since last year