April 2012
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On landmarks and getting to know you'll never ever...
Should I lift the dirt and plant the seed
Even though I’ll never grow
Should I wet the ground with the sweat from my brow
And believe in my good work
My good work
My good work
My good work
– Victory Dance, My Morning Jacket
As a kid, I may have broken unofficial records for taking swimming lessons for the most consecutive summers without ever finishing. The failure to complete the...
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Some words to think on offered by some really...
Here are three inspiring presentations from the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism, which took place last week in Austin, Texas.
Ben Welsh, database producer, Los Angeles Times
Brian Boyer, news applications editor, Chicago Tribune Media Group
Alastair Dant, lead interactive technologist at Guardian News & Media, London, UK
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Joshua Tauberer - @JoshData - offers book on Open...
This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics. Topics include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.
via...
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So you want a timely sync between your Google...
…Here is a quick walkthrough of it. This is an experiment with tools in front of me, but I can’t say how this might scale or work, and I’d be sure to backup data…
And I have only tried this with a set number of rows and columns to update. I have not tried this method with a Spreadsheet that is changing in size.
Create the Spreadsheet
Create a Fusion Table from the Spreadsheet
Add your update...
