Monthly Archives: October 2007

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The human side of statistics: two crime-mapping websites

I’m intrigued by the complexity of presenting statistics on a map, and in my research I’ve come across two compelling but different approaches to mapping crime data: Oakland Crimespotting and the LA Times Homicide Map. Oakland Crimespotting Created by Stamen Design, Oakland Crimespotting uses data…


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Reassuring bits of nothing, from all over the globe

Twitter is a strange entrant onto the social networking stage … I must admit I don’t really see the point. People share little 120-character bits of information about themselves (“just had a great burrito for lunch”, “waiting for my dad to pick me up”, etc.),…


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