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Welcome to the forty-fourth issue of DashingD3js.com's Weekly Newsletter

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Where to Post and Find Data Visualization Jobs

Article by Scott Murray about a list of resources for those wanting to advertise or land open data visualization positions.

D3 on AngularJS

Combining the power of D3 and Angular can be challenging and confusing. We constantly get asked how to integrate the two in our classes. In this post, we aim to clear the confusion and bring you the best documentation on how to integrate AngularJS and D3.

Data Visualization Reading and Videos



Map: Where the People Are By Longitude And By Latitude

The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and latitude.

Making Data Sensible With A Bayesian Analysis

Here I investigate the murder rates (number of arrests by population of 100,000) in the US in 2010 and show that a Bayesian approach gives more sensible results than a simple approach.

Data Visualization Tutorial: Mapping and Data Visualization of U.S. Migration Flows

This tutorial introduces the U.S. Census Bureau's Flows Mapper tool which maps the flow of people from one county to another using data from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey. Once the data is queried and downloaded from the site, the data is cleaned in MS Excel and visualized using Datawrapper's open source solution.

Visualizing Slavery: The Map Abraham Lincoln Spent Hours Studying During the Civil War

If you look closely at Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s 1864 painting “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln” you will notice a map in the lower right-hand corner, next to the group that includes Lincoln and his cabinet. The map is an early example of statistical cartography.

R Language Tops The Charts As Most Preferred Language For Data Science And Big Data Analytics

KDNuggets has published its annual poll of top languages for analytics, data mining and data science, and just as in the two years prior, R language is ranked as the most popular. Based on a high response of over 700 voters, R’s usage grew 16% this year compared to the 2012 poll, followed by Python, and SQL.

D3.js Reading and Videos



Babymaking: An Interactive Version Of Matt Stiles' "How Common Is Your Birthday?"

This visualization shows that birthdates are not random by any means. For instance, check out how low the rankings are for the 13th of each month and near-absence of births on July 4. Hovering highlights the conception date in green, or you can click the conception box in the upper right to show approximate conception dates in the cells rather than birth dates. You can find the code on GitHub (built with d3.js) and me on Twitter (@laneharrison).

d3-server.js

Caged / d3-server.js :: Directly render and serve d3 visualizations from a nodejs server.

Using AngularJS and D3 to Create a WordCloud Directive

One of AngularJS’ most sophisticated and unique features is directives. Directives allow you to extend the vocabulary of HTML, such that complex DOM structures and corresponding behavior can be hidden behind a new HTML tag, attribute or a CSS class. Here, I want to present a simple yet powerful project aiming at creating an AngularJS directive to enable an easier usage of D3 for people without deep knowledge of JavaScript.

BirdWatch Explained

BirdWatch is a reactive web application for consuming the Twitter Streaming API for a selection of terms. On the server side Play, ElasticSearch and others are used. On the client side AngularJS and D3.js are used. The first of a series of articles.

Wikipedia Traffic And The 2012 Election: Presidential Candidates

Wikipedia traffic & the 2012 election: Presidential candidates - By Noah Veltman. Wikipedia pageviews leading up to the 2012 election for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.





Hope that you had a great past week and that next week is even better!

Wishing you the best,Sebastian Gutierrez