The joy of code
I’ve always had a difficult relationship with programming, firmly convinced that code is beyond me and I’ve been chancing my arm this far. Code doesn’t come naturally to me, I have to painstakingly...
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Interview with InstantAtlas
I was recently interviewed in a case study about how the West Midlands Regional Observatory has used InstantAtlas software to visualise geographical data. Read the interview »
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Visualisation of listening habits using last.fm API and Google Spreadsheets
I made a data visualisation today showing the top 50 artists I listened to in 2010. The size of the artist photo is proportional to the number of times I listened to any track by that artist in 2010....
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Your Twitter psychological profile
TweetPysch is a tool that “creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and compares it to the thousands already in the database. This identifies those traits that are used more or...
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You are what you tweet
This ia a bit of fun to kick off the new year – an infographic representing yours truly based on my Twitter data. I made it using visual.ly’s Twitterize Yourself wizard. Apparently, I have a geeky...
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Visualize This chapter 2: scrape weather data using Python
This weekend I started working through the book Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics by Nathan Yau, the writer and data visualisation expert behind...
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Review: The human face of big data app
Photo © Peter Menzel 2012 / from The Human Face of Big Data The Human Face of Big Data is: “[…] a globally crowdsourced media project focusing on humanity’s new ability to collect, analyze, triangulate...
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Add Google authorship markup to WordPress sites using All in One SEO Pack
I’ve read up on Google authorship markup this week, particularly in the context of adding it to websites built on WordPress. For Google, the idea is to surface web content by popular authors in search...
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