Links

Useful for a stepper map

Topic could make this interesting; plus cash prize and trip to Paris

Superset of JavaScript for application-scale development; compiles to JavaScript

Sounds like the same cycle as visualization

The R how-to blog is only a month old, but it’s off to a good start

HuffingtonPost introduces a mobile app for readers to map and report the election

Pretty results

Winners among 1,000+ entries (although I bet at least half of those were marketing spam)

Designing a programming systems for understanding programs

Tips on visualization for advocacy [via]

The statisticians are still gaga over this. Here’s more code to do it.

Not just Arial

“simple models can close the accuracy gap when applied to large data sets”

Locations that don’t exist, melting cities, and roads in the clouds

Some background on a connected scatterplot by Hannah Fairfield

Common sense is useful.

Integral to the data design process

Fetching tweets and metadata

Good explanation of the method to find centers of density, with interactive demos

Open source PDF, although looks pretty technical on first glance