Tutorials
How-to guides and tutorials
Teaching Data Journalism In China
I've just returned from a week in China, teaching data journalism to students from all over the country at Fudan University (sponsored by the U.S. China Education Trust). Helped by...
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Mapping Crime Data With CartoDB
Today I started playing with CartoDB, an online data mapping service that reminds me in some ways of both Google Fusion Tables and TileMill. To start, I grabbed a simple...
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Use Calendar Heat Maps to Visualize Your Tweets Over Time
Following Nathan Yau’s excellent tutorial for creating heat maps with time series data (he used vehicle accidents by day for a year), I visualized 3,559 of my tweets back to...
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