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A Histogram is not a Bar Chart →
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What is a chart? →
A lot of things, and if anything it’s subjective
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Art and Technology Will Change Everything →
Collision in a good way this year [via]
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Arguments with Graphics →
“The bottom line: in their tests, rebutting misinformation with graphics was shown to be more effective than conveying the same information in written form.”
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Iowa Republican Caucuses →
NYT graphics’ election coverage about to kick into full gear
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The Iowa Horse Race →
Candidates’ poll standings using animated horsies. Effective, if a little campy for the masses
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Using D3 with a database →
Since D3’s JavaScript, it’s straightforward to hook in a dynamic data source.
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1940 Census records going online →
Searchable records go up in April, although I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high since it’s the government. [via]
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Traps in Data Journalism →
“[Y]ou have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate.” Just because the numbers exist, doesn’t mean they’re accurate.
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99% Invisible →
At around the 20-minute mark, Radiolab presents an interview with Nicholas Felton about his annual report.
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TimelineSetter →
Make a basic timeline that displays events over time, using a CSV file as input
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Bixo →
“…an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop”
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Building the France Dorling cartogram →
A step-by-step on making a cartogram, replacing geographic boundaries with circles
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Ending the Infographic Plague →
Overdramatic, but some good commentary on poorly designed and rushed graphics
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Stop mining data! →
“…data is essentially a set of statements about the world and we are attempting to figure out – from the aggregate of statements – what the world looks like.”
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How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors →
Guide on picking colors and a small JavaScript library to boot
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Excel Charts meet William Playfair →
Just because you’re using Excel doesn’t mean your charts have to look like it
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Substratum: A series of inspirational interviews →
A peak into some smart people’s minds, most recently Amanda Cox and Nicholas Felton
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How infographics jumped the shark →
Don’t worry. This isn’t the end of the world.
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What is a Data Scientist? →
Lot of press lately for this job title
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