Dating back to 1800s, made in 2005 [via]
Resource Links
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Timeline of Computer Graphics →
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Preventative Mapping in Uganda →
Using OpenStreetMap tasking manager to recruit volunteers to help map expanding area
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The Best and Worst Countries in the Medal Count →
NYT graphics having some fun with this one; maybe overcomplicated for some
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Photographs Recreated Using Crayons →
Rethinking the pixel
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App for choosing paths less traveled →
Not out yet, but could be a fun one when it does
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Why Amanda Cox should be in charge of audio →
Process for finding the right sound just for a few seconds of audio
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Soccer data →
“every ‘on the ball’ event for every Premier League player in every match from the entire 2011-12 Premier League season”
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10 critical packages on CRAN →
Statisticians should have these installed already
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ProjectTemplate →
Automate the drudge work for an analysis project in R
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Where to start with text mining →
Detailed article if you want to learn to analyze words
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Closed-Source Software →
SAS clinging on as free and often better alternatives take marketshare [via]
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Clockwork Raven →
Open source Mechanical Turk application by Twitter engineering that lets you easily submit data for review
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csvjson →
Converts a CSV file into JSON or GeoJSON [via]
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The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers →
It’s not geographically accurate, but it wasn’t meant to be
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Hand-crafted data →
Data Stories has Stefanie Posavec on as guest; she makes intricate pieces without code
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Statisticians need better marketing →
So much hype and funding for big data, but statistics as a field of study seems to be lost
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Visualizing Hadoop →
Twitter releases HDFS-DU to explore what’s going on in your clusters
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Data Jujitsu →
Don’t like the title, but the (free) report could be worthwhile
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Too many bars →
Improving on gradient-filled bar charts with clarity [via]
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Politics of eating out →
Mostly a correlation with geography