Links

Open source Mechanical Turk application by Twitter engineering that lets you easily submit data for review

Converts a CSV file into JSON or GeoJSON [via]

It’s not geographically accurate, but it wasn’t meant to be

Data Stories has Stefanie Posavec on as guest; she makes intricate pieces without code

So much hype and funding for big data, but statistics as a field of study seems to be lost

Twitter releases HDFS-DU to explore what’s going on in your clusters

Don’t like the title, but the (free) report could be worthwhile

Improving on gradient-filled bar charts with clarity [via]

Mostly a correlation with geography

Easy way to add a pie chart as your favicon, to update loading progress

Streamgraph seems to be growing into de facto chart type for Twitter trends

They just need to learn how to use bar charts

A critique of the arms trade interactive from Google

Tutorials on working with government data

Redesign kinda works, but some might argue that Wikipedia’s barebones approach is a reason for its success

I went on a backup spree after reading this

Import all FEC data from 1980 and beyond into PostgreSQL database

NYT put links to all the graphics they’ve done on one page

Kosara didn’t like it, which is what I expected

Grab data from webcam or phone camera, and then analyze