Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Oct 17-22: challenging dataviz assumptions (@eagereyes); Clinton/Trump facial analysis (@TheEconomist); R & RStudio (@mjfrigaard); pharma money (@srfdata); code database (@srfdata); German lobbyists (@tagesspiegel); & more.
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