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Want to mix and match datasets and a few typical ways to visualize data? There's a Google for that.
Quote: There are four choices for visualization styles - bar graph, line graph, map or bubble, and each has its advantage. After choosing a visual style, you can select what data points you would like to see and set variables such as time period. Added: March 8, 2010 at 2:35PM EST
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An exercise in transparency, of course, detailing how the Sunlight team connected the live video of last week's health care summit to valuable data outlining the motivations of the speakers.
Quote: Other than the video box, we hosted three other widgets that made the Sunlight Live site the interactive page that it was. The first was a custom built widget that provided data from OpenSecrets, illuminating campaign contributions to those who spoke during the debate. Added: March 2, 2010 at 12:39PM EST
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New Media Internships - latimes.com: Web production and editing, data and programming journalism, & social media and community positions available now.
Quote: Applicants are encouraged to get academic credit or use the experience in coursework. Successful applicants will be paid. Internship length and weekly hours will vary by specific appointment; the minimum would be two days a week for an academic quarter or semester. There is also a summer program. Candidates must be available some evenings and weekends. Added: February 12, 2010 at 1:59PM EST
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- kleinmatic: First correction issued in a news app? http://bit.ly/7Yd4HD
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Maybe not the first, but it becomes an interesting question. How long do you leave the correction on the page? How and where do you archive corrections that relate to databases? Is it worth having some sort of microblog -- or at least a blog category -- for every app to cover notes like this?
Added: February 9, 2010 at 11:26AM EST
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This book is a data-focused remix of "Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist," the book Adrian Holovaty often recommends to journalists who want to get started with Django.
Quote: Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. Added: February 5, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
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Chris Amico is writing a bit of a guide for journalists looking to get started with Django.
Quote: Here's another parallel to learning to speak Chinese. You will make dumb mistakes. You will break things. You will spend days hunting for the one misplaced comma that turns your beautiful application into an ugly stack trace. Added: January 27, 2010 at 7:14AM EST
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Heartbeat-like view of mobile and Web traffic to NYTimes.com on the day Michael Jackson died. Fascinating to watch the habits of millions of us, with sudden bursts of activity at certain moments of the day as we walk from office to car, or sit down at our desks, or check the news over lunch.
Added: December 17, 2009 at 2:54PM EST
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Ryan said:
Nathan at FlowingData provides this Actionscript/Flash tutorial on how to build a graph that looks a bit like those baby name explorers and unemployment charts you've seen lately.
Quote: This tutorial is for people with at least a little bit of programming experience. Added: December 9, 2009 at 7:44AM EST
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Like Wordle? Check out this improvement on the concept, comparing two speeches, or two stories, and mapping the common vocabulary in each. This was done with Processing. (Spotted via infosthetics.com)
Added: November 17, 2009 at 10:20AM EST
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Ryan said:
Fantastic tutorial using Python, Beautiful Soup, and a few other free ingredients to cook up a visually attractive map.
Quote: There are about a million ways to make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. The problem is that a lot of solutions require expensive software or have a high learning curve...or both. What if you just want a simple map without all the GIS stuff? Added: November 13, 2009 at 12:14PM EST
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