Questionable data quality and less funding
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Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline →
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Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload? →
“The results showed that when tasks were presented visually rather than using traditional text-based software applications, individuals used around 20% less cognitive resources.”
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Mapmaking checklist for map design →
To evaluate how good maps are
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From Tiny Links, Big Insights →
Profile of chief bitly scientist Hilary Mason, data hacker at large
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US health care spending →
Simple graphs in R but effective
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet →
There’s a lot of tracking as your browse the net, and here’s how to limit the bits of you data you put out there
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Histogrem →
Font to put histograms in your text files
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Axes in D3 →
Tutorial on built-in formatting
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Bit rot →
The slow decay of digital content, and as a result, history
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Growth of the Data Scientist →
Short interview with Hilary Mason
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Setting expectations in data science projects →
Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals
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Visualization round table →
Discussing data and online journalism
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How to lie with smoking statistics →
Author of “How to Lie with Statistics” was a consultant to the tabacco industry
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Titanic infographics from 1912 →
Fourth one is the best, shows travel times to cross the Atlantic
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A Very Short History of Data Science →
Collection of notable articles on the budding field in chronological order, beginning in 1974
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Animations in R →
Probably better ways to do this not in R, but you can create a bunch of GIFs and string them together
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Extra Oceans →
Improper map boundaries make extra bodies of water in the world
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osmar →
Import OpenStreetMap geographic elements into R [via]
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Motion graphics: New weapons of visual journalism →
A new and growing way to tell stories
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Cubism.js →
D3 plugin for visualizing time series
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