Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.
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Vector tiles
MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.
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Most creative
Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.
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Making the game of thrones visualization
Jerome Cukier describes the process behind making his Game of Thrones interactive.
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A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People
A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.
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Geoguessr
GeoGuessr is a game of location. It plops you somewhere in the world via Google street view, and you figure out where you ara. The closer you are, the more points you get.
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Creating a hexagonal cartogram
How to create a hexagonal cartogram using a combination of ArcGIS, Python, and D3.
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Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges
Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.
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Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus
Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus. Well, about as cool as someone who calls his or herself a data cruncher, anyways.
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Geographic Bounding Boxes
Geographic Bounding Boxes. A trivial task in a 2-D space, but tricker on sphere.
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I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet
Paul Miller disconnected from the Internet completely for a year. He describes an experience of at first feeling free and unburdened but eventually feeling lonely and, well, disconnected.
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Selections in D3
Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.
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Visualization as Process →
Jer Thorp describes visualization as process rather than a tool or a product. “Please visualize our data.”
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What your zip code reveals about you
What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.
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On Maps with Michal Migurski
Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.
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Crosslet
Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.
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500K degree
A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.
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Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula
Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula. A collaborative project from Mozilla Open News.
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Doing good with data
Periscopic founders Kim Rees and Dino Citraro spoke with Co.Design on what makes good visualization.
“I don’t think the goal of vizualization should be that precog understanding, giving you something so quickly that you don’t have to think about it; I think the goal should be that you do have to think about it,” she says. “I want people to have a brain, to have a say. I think it’s becoming only more important as we tackle more nuanced information. I don’t want the computer or the creator to tell me what to believe. I want an opening to say, ‘let me look into that machine.'”
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healthvis
The healthvis R package tries to make creation of interactive graphics easier by rendering in D3.
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