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This is a demonstration of how to create a combination town/county map from a shapefile using TopoJSON and d3.js.

It includes a simplified version of the code used for the Massachusetts special Senate election results on The Huffington Post.

Get the data

Download a shapefile of Massachusetts towns from the state's GIS site:

wget http://wsgw.mass.gov/data/gispub/shape/census2000/towns/census2000towns_poly.exe

This is a Jekyll plugin for creating YouTube or Vimeo embed codes.

Usage

Put the plugin file video-embeds.rb in your _plugins directory. Create a tag specifying the type of video you want to embed with the first required argument, the video id.

{% youtube ab1234ab1 %}

Run these once to setup git options:

git config --global push.default current
git config --global merge.defaultToUpstream true
git config --global branch.autosetupmerge true
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase remote
git config --global alias.cb 'checkout -b'
git config --global alias.ps 'push -u'
git config --global alias.pl '!git fetch -p && git rebase'

Use them like this:

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

How to Program Independent Games
Kill Math (and Don't Kill Math)
Move Fast and Don't Break Things
Launch & The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
_why at Art & Code
Repetitive Process

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.

People

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General Background and Overview

Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
[Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

	library(maptools)
	library(geosphere)

	# load USA state-level spatial data
	# download from http://gadm.org
	# click the 'download' tab
	# select county = 'united states', file format = 'R', click ok
	# download 'level 1' for state-level data
	load("USA_adm1.RData")

	// pre-render d3 charts at server side
	var d3 = require('d3')
	, jsdom = require('jsdom')
	, fs = require('fs')
	, htmlStub = '<html><head></head><body><div id="dataviz-container"></div><script src="js/d3.v3.min.js"></script></body></html>'

	jsdom.env({
	features : { QuerySelector : true }
	, html : htmlStub
	, done : function(errors, window) {

	##
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	# Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Morrissey
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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