Slides and some sample code for an intro to the software [via]
Resource Links
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Munging, Modeling, and Visualizing Data with R →
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Bloated Numbers →
Companies, especially tech ones, like to spout numbers, but when you actually look, the numbers are often meaningless. [via]
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Displaying Data in the State of the Union →
Recap of the graphics used. The streaming enhanced version was struggling for me the other night, so I had to go with the non-chartified version.
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Unfolding →
Processing/Java library to create thematic maps and geovisualizations [via]
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Beginner’s Guide to Building a Map Server →
custom maps are all the rage these days
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Data Hub →
Another potential open data source, by CKAN
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When We Build →
When we build: “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” [via]
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The “Mad Men” Years Are Giving Way to the “Math Men” Era →
“Advertising is based on one thing: Happiness.” [via]
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Google open-sources Sky Map →
collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University for further development via student projects
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When you should use a logarithmic scale →
to handle large counts and look at percent changes
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The State of Information Visualization →
a look back at the new developments last year and what to look forward to
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How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives →
“The map user has now become the map creator.”
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Golan Levin at Eyeo →
gestural interfaces and information visualization together
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Data Swims Upstream →
one of my favorite data visualization firms, Periscopic, interviewed for Print Magazine on their work and process
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Recursive Google Image search →
starts with a transparent PNG, to the universe, and beyond, and then back again
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D3 Path Transitions →
moving time series, plus smooth scrolling
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What is Data Science? →
detailed article on the budding field
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Introduction to Probability →
Lecture videos and materials for Statistics 110, offered at Harvard, on iTunes U for free
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Stamen Projects 2011 →
One of the best in the business look back at all of last year’s map work
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Teaching stat as though it were math →
Ranty post on why stat isn’t math