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Data Without Borders

This week we have seen a great deal of buzz about Data Without Borders, a new project conceived by Jake Porway, a talented data scientist and member of the celebrated New York Times Research & Development team. Data Without Borders aims to establish a ‘data scientist exchange’, connecting up the expert community of visualisation and […]

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Google’s ‘Visualize Your Taxes’ contest winner announced

Google have announced the winners, runners-up and notable mentions for their recent ‘Visualize Your Taxes‘ challenge which invited designers to create data visualisations that would make it easier for US citizens to understand how the government spends their tax money. The winner is a project titled ‘Where did my tax dollars go?‘ by developer Anil Kandangath.

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Heritage Health Prize, $230,000 of progress prizes announced

The Heritage Health Prize is a $3 million contest, sponsored by managed-care company Heritage Provide Network Inc, to use medical data to improve health care by designing a predictive algorithm that can best predict when people are likely to be sent to the hospital. Yesterday (March 15) the Network announced that the world’s largest predictive

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