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Data analysis and visualization, graphic design, and open source software.

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Building Better Interfaces with SVG by Sara Soueidan

A presentation created with Slides.

Incredible things you can do with SVG.

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Colourout colorizes R output when running in a terminal emulator

Back again after a long break, today I discovered the package 'colorout' to put color into your R-console. While not essential if you are working with scripts using editors that highlight code, it helps when you're running short test commands directly in the console. Check ir out in: http://www.lepem.ufc.br/jaa/colorout.html

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The Global Brain Trade

Which countries have the most foreign scientists, and which ones suffer from the worst brain drain? To answer these questions, researchers at the  National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts conducted a Web-based survey of over 17 000 published scientists in 16 countries.

— via the IEEE Spectrum

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Age Distribution on Social Networks

Image: By Pingdom with data from Google Ad Planner via Bit Rebels. Select to embiggen.

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Whether you are completely new to coding or a developer looking to learn a new language, LearnStreet courses make it engaging and fun to create with code.

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 A book in HLMT that gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of Data that has emerged through the application of these principles. The book discusses patterns for publishing Linked Data, describes deployed Linked Data applications and examines their architecture.

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Getting Started With Data

Hilary Mason, Bitly’s data chief, gives advice on how to get started in data science, from finding a buddy to tutorials you can watch and books you can read.

Double Bonus: See her next video, How to Work With Data.

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The success of a visualization is based on deep knowledge and care about the substance, and the quality, relevance and integrity of the content.

Tufte, 1983

(seen at: Social Network Analysis class at Coursera)

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Interesting and free online course platform that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses in a wide range of topics, from music to web inteligence and big data. Worth a look. 

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List of data catalogs around the world.

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the Data Hub is a community-run catalogue of useful sets of data on the Internet. You can collect links here to data from around the web for yourself and others to use, or search for data that others have collected. Depending on the type of data (and its conditions of use), the Data Hub may also be able to store a copy of the data or host it in a database, and provide some basic visualisation tools.

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AirDroid: One of the most useful apps for your Android phone... AND FREE!!

I have discovered the free android app AirDroid. This app lets you manage your phone directly from a web browser, and access your messages, contacts, photos, ringtones, apps, and more in a very user-friendly interface. The way you connect your phone the browser is as simple as going to web.airdroid.com, scanning with a QR code with your phone or entering a code into the browser and, boilá!, you have access to your phone. 

You can even send SMS or open URL on your phone directly from the browser!Quite a find, and the best and most incredible part is that this app is FREE!! One of my definite favourites!

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Data from the U.S. government: Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets

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Data viz inspiration, tools, code: selection.datavisualization.ch  

“This is not a list of everything out there, but instead a thoughtfully curated selection of our favourite tools that will make your life easier creating meaningful and beautiful data visualizations”

via @arainert

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D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

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Very basic but many times forgotten advices to avoid simple mistakes in data representation. 

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