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2009-09-11 04:42 pm

a short story involving magic, data visualization, and Google

http://robinsloan.com/2009/41/

I don't think that the author really knows very much about data visualization, but it's an interesting read. Plus it paints the Google campus in a very...different...light. :)

As a side note, I found this experiment of the author to be hilarious: http://robinsloan.com/2009/52/#more-52
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2008-08-07 12:17 pm

census data: most common ethnic group, by county

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg

I would not have expected "German" to be nearly so prevalent.

Of course, now I really want a tool that gives me histograms (or pie charts, or whatever) for each county.