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Folium makes it easy to visualize data that's been manipulated in Python on an interactive Leaflet map. It enables both the binding of data to a map for choropleth visualizations as well as passing Vincent/Vega visualizations as markers on the map.

Update on our Verily project to verify social media during crises: http://t.co/EAcR1AhzzH #Information #Forensics
– Patrick Meier (PatrickMeier) http://twitter.com/PatrickMeier/status/336475494541312001

We know you have a whole lot of photos that you can't find, so we created Tagasauris to help you find them.

What is information literacy for? Is it to help students succeed in college? To learn how to enter the conversations that scholars engage in? To enable students to create new knowledge? To give students tools to change the world? Though we may say "all of the above," our approaches to teaching and learning often focus on immediate needs ("how can I find five scholarly sources for my paper?") at the expense of deeper, more complex kinds of learning. We will unpack the unintended messages we often send when modeling the research process, examine the ways library systems position researchers as consumers rather than creators, and explore ways to invite students to hack the library and claim it as an intellectual maker space. If information literacy is preparation for lifelong learning, we need to consider the changing world we are sending our students into - and what we librarians can do to change it for the better.

RT @cyberassemblage: My new short paper on #information #warfare in Philosophy & Technology now available Preprint:

RT @cyberassemblage: My new short paper on #information #warfare in Philosophy & Technology now available Preprint:

A very, very bad info graphic showing morbidity rates from vaccines.

There's a contradiction in this essay. Mr. Dobelli advises us to ditch the news because, for one reason, news is irrelevant. It doesn't let us make better decisions about things that actually affect our lives. Yet he also recommends that we read books and long magazine articles which explain the forces that shape our world. Suppose we do. Will we then be able to make better decisions? In some cases yes, but most of the time those forces are out of our control, and learning about them doesn't help. Some of his opinions are just snobbery.

"How about unplugging from sensational Luddite ramblings? We're fine. We who read 20 tweets every hour are going to be okay. Keeping an eye on our email and getting Facebook notifications won't hurt us. Why is that? Because we're not dumb. We stop paying attention to digital squaks long before they hurt us."

Billion Dollar O Gram-2013, from Information Is Beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net