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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 c…

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/ ).

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

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 …

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 to…

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.]