The Magnificent Map of Rap Names

keanery:

An update to the Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names, I believe.

OMG!  It’s like hip-hop meets Treasure Island.  With AJAX.  OMG.

(Source: daptone)

Neat use of ManyEyes to visualize survey responses...easy to see news uses of this

designaday:

One of the questions in my survey asked what languages respondents were proficient in. I categorized the languages by type and turned the responses into a treemap with the help of Many Eyes.

As you can see, client side languages are the most popular, with HTML and CSS leading the way. That…

(Source: greglinch)

automaticashleyb:

Happy Presidents Day!

I leave you with a quote from my most favorite president ever :)

Datawrapper, a project by DataStory

jochmann:

Yay, more automated creation of visualization!

You may remember that we are still waiting for visual.ly to open their lab and release the kraken. Erm, I meant their creation tool. Well, here’s a working alternative for you to check out. It’s free, too.

I’ve seen some of the results embedded on German news sites and they looked decent enough. The tool creates solid charts and graphs, not so much flashy infoposters, just so we’re clear. Have fun.

Ruby on Rails Screencasts - RailsCasts

gsappcloud:

Video resources for learning Ruby on Rails

mishidems:

Udacity CS 101: Grammar Lecture

(Source: mahivory)

It’s a trend: Newspaper buildings are worth selling

daniscalifornia:

Content is worth zero, but newspaper buildings are worth selling. How long before this happens to the U-T? They should come downtown and work next to the startups. 

^^^^ YES ^^^^