Best-selling science writer James Gleick refers to this map by John Nelson a bunch of us were linking to over the weekend (click for larger version): Dot-Density, FTW Based on similar work by Kirk Goldsberry, John took county-level data and posted a red dot for every 100 votes for Romney, a blue dot for […]
The Excel spreadsheet is the world’s most popular way to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and visualize data. Yet I’m unaware of an accredited institution offering a four-year Bachelor’s degree in Spreadsheeting. Yet replace “data” with “geographic data” in the previous sentence, and suddenly everything is different? Why is that? Variation on a Theme In […]
There’s no more persuasive evidence that we’re in the twilight of the “Rock Star” than its appropriation by the tech sector to mean little more than someone with a penchant for wearing black and an inflated self-regard. But there are still a few true rock stars still plying their craft, including Bruce Springsteen who, […]