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What We Pay For is a simple website that lets you enter your income and filing status and find out how your tax dollars are being spent. It breaks

Pattern is a collection of open source (BSD license) web mining modules for Python from the Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center. It contains tools for data retrieval, text

Just in time for tax day here in the U.S., Google's Data Viz Challenge, a five-week developer competition, ended and the Grand Prize winner announced. The winning entry is called

Today at the Strata conference The Stanford Visualization Group debuted a Web-based visual tool for cleaning up messy data called DataWrangler. According to its website, "Wrangler allows interactive transformation

Microsoft is announcing two new features to Bing Maps today - an integration with Oodle to show rental property listings and another integration with Foursquare to visualize check-ins, tips and

Data can be so meaningless. The U.S. budget deficit, death counts, the total amount of carbon we produce all have one thing in common. The numbers by themselves are

Kovas Boguta, the head of analytics at Weebly and a guest author on ReadWriteWeb, has created another powerful data visualization, this time of the "the pro-democracy movement in Egypt and

Facebook hit 500 million users this week, but where do they all live? If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world - but

Yvo Schaap is a 23 year old student in the Netherlands who spends at least some of his time developing ways to visualize information. More specifically, he has been working

People love data visualization; when done well, it communicates new knowledge about otherwise inaccessible information in new and pleasing ways. Good visualizations can be efficient and effective; bad visualizations can