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Using hexagon maps to show areas with high levels of reported crime | Chris Essig
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Walkthroughs, tips and tricks from a young, data journalist. Using hexagon maps to show areas with high levels of reported crime. Leave a comment ». Crime maps are a big. These days. And with good reason: Good crime maps can tell your readers a whole lot about crime not only in their city but their backyard. On crime in Waterloo and Cedar Falls. And we’ve even dispelled some myths on where crime happens along the way. The process, which I’ve blogged about in the past. We’ve broken the map into mont...
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Lessons in open source code management – Tom Meagher
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Lessons in open source code management. Cross-posted from OpenNews's Source. Blog This piece ran a few days after the closure of my employer, Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome. Nearly every time the data team at Project Thunderdome. Prepared to launch an interactive graphic, a CAR. Of course, despite our best intentions, we never went back until so much time had passed that we’d completely forgotten just about everything we had tried to do. Under a permissive MIT. On April 2, we learned that Digi...