Author is misguided and clearly doesn’t work with data
Resource Links
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Data Visualization: It’s Pretty, but Is It Useful? →
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Is algebra necessary? →
Maybe we should get rid of reading and writing, too
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Open Government Data Principles →
Should be complete, timely, not in aggregate
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Interactive Spaces →
Google releases API to make rooms digitally interactive
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Vizify →
Another site to turn your personal data into an infographic. Why?
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Census API →
It only took a kajillion dollars, but they finally have one
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Really Big Objects Coming to R →
Maximum vector length making its way to 252; “That’s a lot of McNuggets.”
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How to visualise social structure →
Applying new techniques to old Census data
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Viral infographics and useful visual communication →
Stupid 10-second rule
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The Future of Big Data
Results from Pew survey on what to look forward to and what not to
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The Data Stack: A Structured Approach →
Layers of a data-driven application
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Data science: tools vs. craft →
Data science: tools vs. craft. It takes more than a program to do something useful.
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Sometimes Less Really Is Less →
Reducing complexity
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Interview with Hilary Mason of bitly →
“I’m a firm believer in finding the smartest people you can, and letting them use whatever works best.”
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Infographics Are Not a Social Media Strategy →
Need something i.e. ideas or data for people to talk about
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You don’t need a real-time dashboard →
Technically impressive, but usually not useful for real decisions
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What Social Networks Know About You →
Graphic on the data that they have; probably would’ve been a lot easier to read as a grid instead of a circle
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Droughts on deadline →
Making a bunch of maps using maptools in R; actually really easy once you have the data
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Resistance to data →
Use it to verify your gut feelings
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Oil of the digital age →
Mobile tech advances; so do possibilities
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