The Guardian Datablog posted a choropleth map; readers helped them fix it
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Changing map colors →
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Census director resigns to Georgetown →
Loss for the Bureau, a gain for the university
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Visual Aesthetics →
How they play a role in human-computer interaction and evaluating them
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Mapping Process →
The steps behind making NYT map in R, showing where Rick Santorum stood before he suspended his campaign
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Text Processing with MapReduce →
From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github
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Visualizing Twitter →
Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections
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What makes good data visualization →
Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser
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Design is a Job →
“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]
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Why Statistics? →
Seems promising, if you have access to Science
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Data Stories →
“I have a goal in life: To rid the world of bad PowerPoint slides.”
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Designing Data Visualizations →
An almost two-hour long, analytics-focused talk
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geo-how-to →
Tips and tricks for making your own maps
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Manhattan-like grids in the brain →
More organized and less chaotic than previously thought
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Streets Visualized →
Make your own local Ben Fry-esque All Streets
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Ember and D3 →
How Square built a responsive analytics page
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Charities Use Infographics for Attention →
Well, a lot of people are these days. There are some pointers in here though how not to do it crappy.
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The New World of Massive Data Mining →
Podcast on the growing number of uses
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Abstract City →
There’s a book! A print version of Niemann’s blog
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Producing SciAm Infographics in the Era of “Big Data” →
A change in focus to clarity and simplicity from one of technologies last year
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Rendering High Resolution Maps in Kartograph →
Shows a lot of potential
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