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The Open Data Manual This report discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. The manual can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data - why to go open, what open is, and the how to 'open' data. To get started, you may wish to look at the Introduction. You can navigate through the report using the Table of Contents (see sidebar or below).

TileMill is an application for making beautiful maps. Whether you're a journalist, web designer, researcher, or seasoned cartographer, TileMill is the design studio you need to create compelling, interactive maps. Download TileMill For Mac OS X & Linux Documentation Manual, tutorials, & more Powered by Open Source TileMill is built on a suite of modern open source libraries including Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js, express and CodeMirror. Jump on GitHub where you can dig into the source code. http://mapbox.com/tilemillTileMill is an application for making beautiful maps. Whether you're a journalist, web designer, researcher, or seasoned cartographer, TileMill is the design studio you need to create compelling, interactive maps. Download TileMill For Mac OS X & Linux Documentation Manual, tutorials, & more Powered by Open Source Only for OSX TileMill is built on a suite of modern open source libraries including Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js, express and CodeMirror. Jump on GitHub where you can dig into the source code. http://mapbox.com/tilemill

The all-in-one software for Content Analysis and Text Mining Hello We are pleased to announce the release of T-LAB 8.0. This version represents a major change in the usability and the effectiveness of our software for text analysis. The most significant improvements concern the integration of bottom-up (i.e. unsupervised) methods for exploratory text analysis with top-down (i.e. supervised) approaches for the automated classification of textual units like words, sentences, paragraphs and documents. Among other things, this means that - besides discovering emerging patterns of words and themes from texts - the users can now easily build, apply and validate their models (e.g. dictionaries of categories or pre-existing manual categorizations) both for classical content analysis and for sentiment analysis. For this purpose several T-LAB functionalities have been expanded and a new ergonomic and powerful tool named 'Dictionary-Based Classification' has been added. No specific dictionaries have been built in; however, with some minor re-formatting, lots of resources available over the Internet and customized word lists can be quickly imported. Last but not least, in order to meet the needs of many customers, temporary licenses of the software are now on sale; moreover, without any time limit, the trial mode of the software now allows you to analyse your own texts up to 20 kb in txt format, each of which can include up to 20 short documents. To learn more, use the following link http://www.tlab.it/en/80news.php The Demo, the User's Manual and the Quick Introduction are available at http://www.tlab.it/en/download.php Kind Regards The T-LAB Team web: http://www.tlab.it/ e-mail: info@tlab.it

Beautiful but Terrible Pyramids: Tableau Edition by Jorge Camoes on July 12, 2011 Well, here is my first chart in Tableau, finally! After publishing my experiments with population pyramids (using Excel), I thought I could try Tableau Public with the same dataset from the US Census Bureau. Here is the result. I never really played before with Tableau Public and it took my less than an hour to upload the data and make this chart, without reading a manual or watching a tutorial (changing line colors was the hard part). It says a lot about its usability. http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/beautiful-but-terrible-pyramids-tableau-edition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JCCharts+%28Excel+Charts+Blog%29

Select your favorite nation. Note how this could be used to illustrate population changes for a single nation over time or nation-to-nation comparisons.

"The Open Data Handbook This handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data - why to go open, what open is, and the how to 'open' data. To get started, you may wish to look at the Introduction. You can navigate through the report using the Table of Contents (see sidebar or below). We warmly welcome comments on the text and will incorporate feedback as we go forward. We also welcome contributions or suggestions for additional sections and areas to examine."