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A story of bots on Amazon and weird pricing. I saw a little bit of this with Visualize This. At one point there was a couple of “used” books that were nearly twice the retail price.

Lots and lots of them, going back to the 50s

Process of putting this together

A good guide to getting started with crowdsourcing [via]

Arguing against using standard or established algorithms for serious data art; then the counterargument

From data supplier to software service provider

Plotting library in Python

In a follow-up to their crime map, Trulia compares number of violent crimes to non-violent ones for a more insightful view [via]

I posted this a while back, but they had to take it down for some reason. It’s back now. Features interviews with Casey Reas, Amanda Cox, and others

More data, more we need to make sure our identity is safe

Interactive editor of The Guardian, formerly of NYT and News Corp.

His talk will be live-streamed tonight at 7pm EST

Three graphs, same data from different angles [via]

Choppy but a good start

Great slide deck from Mike Bostock’s D3 workshop; a must for anyone new to the library

Do the math yourself and save readers the trouble; also more informative a lot of the time

His annual report came out recently; the interviews follow

How-tos from around the Web for R, D3, and the now-defunct Protovis [via]

“APIs are for nerds (Nerds who build freaking awesome sports stuff.)” [via]

Why, what and how of open data from Open Knowledge Foundation