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“The bottom line: in their tests, rebutting misinformation with graphics was shown to be more effective than conveying the same information in written form.”

NYT graphics’ election coverage about to kick into full gear

Candidates’ poll standings using animated horsies. Effective, if a little campy for the masses

Since D3’s JavaScript, it’s straightforward to hook in a dynamic data source.

Searchable records go up in April, although I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high since it’s the government. [via]

“[Y]ou have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate.” Just because the numbers exist, doesn’t mean they’re accurate.

At around the 20-minute mark, Radiolab presents an interview with Nicholas Felton about his annual report.

Make a basic timeline that displays events over time, using a CSV file as input

“…an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop”

A step-by-step on making a cartogram, replacing geographic boundaries with circles

Overdramatic, but some good commentary on poorly designed and rushed graphics

“…data is essentially a set of statements about the world and we are attempting to figure out – from the aggregate of statements – what the world looks like.”

Guide on picking colors and a small JavaScript library to boot

Just because you’re using Excel doesn’t mean your charts have to look like it

A peak into some smart people’s minds, most recently Amanda Cox and Nicholas Felton

Don’t worry. This isn’t the end of the world.

Lot of press lately for this job title

Moritz Stefaner automates label placement in D3 so that the text is more readable

Binning geographical regions with hexagons. Interesting honeycomb effect

Easy-to-follow introduction to Mike Bostock’s D3 JavaScript library