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Check out Google-Refine at http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ google-refine Google Refine,a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) Project Home Downloads Wiki Issues Source Summary | Updates | People #downloadbox{overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;}#owners a,#members a{white-space:nowrap;[...] “Reporting Complexity (with Complexity): General Systems Theory,Complexity and Simulation Modeling“ See the PPT slides from a vid-conference lecture from Santa Fe to INDIANA UNIVERSITY –PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS School of Public and Environmental Affairs School of Journalism COURSE:Mass Media &Public Affairs March 31,2010 ============================================================================= Thanks to Nathan at Flowing Data: How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution
How do you make a heatmap? This came from kerimcan in the FlowingData forums,and krees followed up with a couple of good links on how to do them in R. It really is super easy. Here's how to make a heatmap with just a few lines of code,but first,a short description of what a heatmap is. The HeatmapIn case you don't …[...] This is a few months old,but we're wondering if any readers have used Hive or tried to deploy it in newsrooms,where “exploring and analyzing data…[is] everyone's responsibility.” Distributed Data Analysis at Facebook Share Tuesday,August 11,2009 at 2:53pm Exploring and analyzing data isn’t the responsibility of one team here [...] FlowingData passes along the link to this fine piece of work by Ben Fry. “Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas”Journos could be using a similar approach to analyze the evolution of the ideas of public officials. Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas Posted by Nathan / Sep 7,2009 [...] Mary Ellen Bates offers up this good tip on “Google Squared”at August 2009 Google Squared Google Labs —the public playground where Google lets users try out new products or services that aren't yet ready for prime time —is my secret weapon for learning about cool new stuff. My favorite new discovery in Google Labs is Google Squared. It's a demonstration of a search engine trying to provide answers instead of just sites,and at a higher level than the simple “smart answers”you see when you search for “time in Rome”…[...] Nathan,over at Flowingdata.com,posts this interesting data visualization from the Baylor College of Medicine. No,it probably doesn't give a science writer a story in itself,but the concept of taking a complex data set and illustrating that data with the right tool —in this case,Circos –good generate some interesting reporting [...] Colleague Owen Densmore points us to this page with these comments:
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