pragetruif

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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   Because I use R quite often, and R just doesn't produce graphs that look like that :). But yes, it's probably possible to draw an uglier version of the visualization. (I know you can draw the individual points on the plane, so drawing lines
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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   The visualization definitely wasn't done in R. I'm guessing he used Gephi (see, for example, http://gephi.org/2010/map-geocoded-data-with-gephi/ ).
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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   It's interesting that Bing actually brought in an outside team (Stamen Design) to design (version 2 of?) their maps: http://content.stamen.com/i_like_bing_maps_and_I_cannot_lie
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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   What are ways for someone without access to a Hadoop cluster (and doesn't want to continually pay for, say, Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce) to learn Hadoop/Pig/Hive? I'm a stats/data analysis guy, so I've been wanting to get into big data for
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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   The funny thing is, I was willing to drop out of school to work at one of those Thiel-network companies (I was interning for the summer, and my team wanted me to stay), but they told me they wouldn't hire me full-time without a degree. I en
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   by pragetruif 16y ago

   How would you monetize these? Mostly from just adding Adsense to the page? [For example, I'm looking at the geolocation of #hate/#love tags, and the imbored-counter.]