Some tips on using OpenHeatMap: A survivor's tale
I have now spent a long, long time getting acquainted with the wonderful OpenHeatMap, a delightful project by Pete Warden that easily lets you map your data sets against not only maps (as the name would apply) but also time.
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Good tools for visualizing social networks
Social NetworkAbout a week ago, I met up with a former Romanian journalist who’d done a great job mapping political, media and organized crime ties in his country, and the complex relation between the three. It was a great database, but a little hard to wrap your head around because...
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I'm in WBUR, Cape Cod Times, Nieman Lab ... and heaven
So lately I’ve been super busy, with a half-written blog post about The Social Network just sitting in my drafts, but I completely forgot to mention something even more important (I know: More important than that?!): I’ve recently had my work features all over the place!
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Making it easy to take it easy
[img_assist nid=2419 title= desc= link=none align=right width=589 height=640]The founder of Wesabe, a failed, Mint-like personal finance startup, <a href=”http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint’>wrote a blog post on why his company failed</a>. It’s good, seemingly courageous (he takes the blame fully and squarely) and, better yet, draws direct comparisons to the company that killed his,...
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