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When Maps Shouldn't Be Maps « Matthew Ericson - ericson.net - 0 views

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jagis maps ericson visualization

shared by Tom Johnson on 14 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • « Illustrator MultiExporter script: Now with JPG and EPS When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps View full interactive map on nytimes.com » Often, when you get data that is organized by geography — say, for example, food stamp rates in every county, high school graduation rates in every state, election results in every House district, racial and ethnic distributions in each census tract — the impulse is since the data CAN be mapped, the best way to present the data MUST be a map. You plug the data into ArcView, join it up with a shapefile, export to Illustrator, clean up the styles and voilà! Instant graphic ready to be published. And in many cases, that’s the right call.
  • Tom Johnson on 14 Oct 11
     
    Matthew Ericson « Illustrator MultiExporter script: Now with JPG and EPS When Maps Shouldn't Be Maps View full interactive map on nytimes.com » Often, when you get data that is organized by geography - say, for example, food stamp rates in every county, high school graduation rates in every state, election results in every House district, racial and ethnic distributions in each census tract - the impulse is since the data CAN be mapped, the best way to present the data MUST be a map. You plug the data into ArcView, join it up with a shapefile, export to Illustrator, clean up the styles and voilà! Instant graphic ready to be published. And in many cases, that's the right call.
Tom Johnson

Mr. People - Data cleaning - 1 views

people.ericson.net

data cleaning analysis tools

shared by Tom Johnson on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Tom Johnson on 31 Mar 12
     
    Mr. People Years ago, while trying to clean up the names of donors in campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission, I hacked together a Perl module - loosely based on the Lingua-EN-NameParse module - to standardize names. One port to Ruby later, I've finally put together a Web front end for it. Try it out below - paste your own data in or try the sample data. To use the people Ruby gem in your own scripts, sudo gem install people, then read the documentation. Suggestions? Send them to mrpeople@ericson.net Allow couples:   Case:  Output:    Paste your names here:
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