Well, pseudo heat maps anyway
Resource Links
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Scatter plots and heat maps in Illustrator →
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Nigel Holmes influences →
Includes Thelonious Monk, Powers of 10, and some atlas
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Basketball shooting data →
An easy-to-download source used in the recent basketball court geographies [via]
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What Facebook Knows →
Profile of the data science team and their pot of gold
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Designing An Amazing Infographic →
Would add analysis in there, but that never seems to be included
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10 seconds rule →
The notion that you have to understand a graph right away only applies to a certain kind of graphic
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Designing data →
It seems kind of out of place on the Typekit blog, but a pretty good rundown of the charting basics
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Bubble Chamber →
Impressive demos from Robert Hodgins’ talk at Eyeo, plus code on GitHub
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Binning: An Alternative to Point Maps →
Avoid clutter caused by too many dots in one place
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Data Science Certificate →
For “real-life scenarios” [via]
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DataKind Goes Full-time →
With Jake Porway leading the way, there’s no doubt the blooming organization is headed for great things.
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Yelp Academic Dataset →
Review data released around thirty universities for research purposes [via]
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Network Grid →
Force nodes into grid format; see demo
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Mapping Airlines →
Using world flights with ggplot2. See also.
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Padding a Time Series in R →
Script to fill in the gaps between unevenly spaced points
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Tangle →
JavaScript library for reactive documents, as seen in Bret Victor’s talk
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Clarity or Aesthetics →
Find a balance between the two
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The Overview Effect →
Lovely set of slides by Sha Hwang on the awe from from data
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Making your R graphics look their best →
Old but all still applicable
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Data Challenge →
New Knight News Challenge is focused on data. $5m in funding this round.
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