The fine people over at Quandl made me aware of their new campaign focussed on data presentation. As a fan of the 'information scientist' Edward Tufte and someone who has devoted a few years of his life to Structured Visual Thinking with John Caswell, I am always on the look out for software that can help us mortals better present our data in consistent, reliable and understandable ways. Guys like Nathan Yau of Flowing Data just boggle my mind. It looks so easy. And then you try it.
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