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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 3-8: spy plane viz (@BuzzFeedNews); ggplot2 (@jburnmurdoch); graphics origins (@cjgiaimo); open source search tools (@OpenSemSearch); East & West Germany differences (@rick_n); Colombia drinking water (@eltiempo); & more.

  1. Thanks, once again, to Marc Smith of Connected Action for gathering the links and graphing them.

  2. Visualization of the U.S. Government's Airborne Surveillance Activity

  3. Did you know @BuzzFeed can do great #dataviz? Government surveillance planes circles via  http://ow.ly/6glp303V3lI  pic.twitter.com/res3B6N9II
    Junior Data Analysts@JDAnalysts
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  4. Thumbnail for See Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching From AboveSee Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching From Above
    America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.
    Peter Aldhous, Charles Seife

  5. Great Explainer by John Murdoch On How To Use ggplot2 To Create Striking Continuous Visualizations

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    Ray Henry@ray_henry_
    Beautiful, programmed ggplot() graphics from The Financial Times.  http://johnburnmurdoch.github.io/slides/r-ggplot/#/ … Link includes a how-to s…  https://twitter.com/i/web/status/783331326090944512 …
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  7. Thumbnail for ggplot2 as a Creativity Engineggplot2 as a Creativity Engine
    ggplot2 as a Creativity Engine
    John Burn-Murdoch

  8. Origins Story of The Pie Chart, Bar Graph and Line Graph, Invented By William Playfair - The Founder of Graphical Methods of Statistics

  9. The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data (Atlas Obscura) via /r/dataisbeautiful https://t.co/vzhOHH5AvT https://t.co/ali9zedJ1H
    The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data (Atlas Obscura) via /r/dataisbeautiful  http://ift.tt/2cL9gr9  pic.twitter.com/ali9zedJ1H
    DataStories@LindaRegber
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  10. Demographic and Cultural Differences of East and West Germany Still Persist 26 Years After Reunification

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    Lisa Charlotte Rost@lisacrost
    Great look at the divided Germany by @rick_n:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/03/germany-reunified-26-years-ago-but-some-divisions-are-still-strong/ …, similar to the @zeitonline article from 2014…  https://twitter.com/i/web/status/783671928292769796 …
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  12. Thumbnail for Germany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strongGermany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strong
    The divide is still visible on maps and even on satellite images.
    Rick Noack

  13. Job Posting: Data Visualization Analyst at Financial Times, UK

  14. Thumbnail for FT - Job detailsFT - Job details
    Search information technology and Internet job openings. Locate job fairs and career events. Post resumes to high tech employers.
    brassring

  15. Open Source Tools for Easier Searching, Analytics, Discovery & Text Mining of Heterogenous and Large Document Sets

  16. Thumbnail for Open Semantic Search: Your own search engine for documents, images, tables, files, intranet & newsOpen Semantic Search: Your own search engine for documents, images, tables, files, intranet & news
    Apache Solr (open source enterprise-search) based free software & open source research tools for faceted search, exploratory search, tagging & annotation, text mining, OCR & datavisualization
    opensemanticsearch

  17. Open Data Visualization: Drinking Water Quality Across Colombia

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    Open Data Zurich@OpenDataZurich
    One example of health #opendata in Colombia is a #ddj-#dataviz on drinking water quality:  http://www.eltiempo.com/multimedia/especiales/calidad-del-agua-en-colombia/16555634/1 ……  https://twitter.com/i/web/status/784312054664474624 …
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  19. Thumbnail for Especial: ¿Sabe usted dónde se toma la mejor y la peor agua del país? - Especial - El TiempoEspecial: ¿Sabe usted dónde se toma la mejor y la peor agua del país? - Especial - El Tiempo
    Estos son los datos de 2015 del Indice de Riesgo de la Calidad del Agua para Consumo Humano, Irca.
    Casa Editorial El Tiempo

  20. ImpactAfrica Grants for Data Journalism & Innovative Reporting That Tackles Development Issues. Deadline: Nov 15, 2016

  21. Thumbnail for impactAFRICAimpactAFRICA
    impactAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for data-driven storytelling
    impactAFRICA

  22. America's Shrinking Middle Class: Now 50% Or Less, Compared with 61% at the end of 1960s - Change Driven By Rapid Growth In Higher Income Earners and Expansion of Poorer Citizens

  23. Thumbnail for America’s Middle-class Meltdown: Core shrinks to half of US homesAmerica’s Middle-class Meltdown: Core shrinks to half of US homes
    Society splinters as bedrock of postwar economy is ‘hollowed out’
    Sam Fleming

  24. Top Ten #ddj (Sept 19-25)

  25. Thumbnail for Top Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism LinksTop Ten #ddj: The Week’s Most Popular Data Journalism Links
    What's the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Sept 19-25: brilliant info graphics (@visualoop); data state of mind (@MaryJoWebster); global temperatures visualized (@NASAEarth); African grants (@Sage_Of_Absurd); DDJ and investigative tools (@M_Mandalka); and more.
    GIJN & Connected Action

  26. For a look at Marc Smith's mapping on #ddj on Twitter, check out this map

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