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Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

Wolfram have launched their Wolfram Engine as a free package for developers. Described by Stephen Wolfram himself on his blog, the Wolfram engine implements the Wolfram Language, which in turn offers a huge range of computational intelligence and algorithmic processing, access to the Wolfram Knowledgebase as well as over 5000 abstracted functions like machine learning, visualisation and image computation.

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Modelling Network Infection

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Kevin Simler has a fascinating interactive post on meltingasphalt.com describing how infections or ideas spread within a network of nodes. The spread of a contagion through a network can be used to not only model disease propagation but also the spread of ideas or nuclear reactions.

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Which Visualization

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Steven Franconeri has created a nice data visualisation reference guide that helps you choose how to display data based on the structure of the data rather than on how people want to see the data.

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Swearch

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Swearch is an interesting tumblr project created by Dublin based art director Niall Staines. The site creates a palette of colours for a movie based on the pre-loader colour returned from a google images search for that movie.

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737 Max Sensor Crashes

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On a more serious note, The New York Times has a chilling interactive data-vis showing how the recent Boeing 737-Max crashes were caused by faulty software and an over-reliance on a single angle of attack sensor.

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Game of Thrones Deaths

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In anticipation of the final season of Game of Thrones, The Washington Post has updated its fabulous data-vis of all the deaths in Game of Thrones, included the most proficient killers! Winter is nearly here.

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Escape With Cheap Flights

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Find the cheapest flights from a starting point on any given day with greatescape.co. The flight search engine plots the options on a world map very nicely.

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Ireland & UK Language History

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Ryan Starkey at StarkeyComics.com released a fantastic animated gif and blog post about the spread and decline of the different languages across Ireland and the UK from 400AD onwards.

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100 Years of Sci-Fi Visualised

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Data Scientist Eric Berlow has analysed 100 years of Science Fiction output and analysed and categories the data. Theme trends show that exploration has seen a boom in recent years, but aliens are also on a comeback. The data also shows that the topic of AI has been re-introduced in the last 30 years.

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The Dialect Quiz

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The New York Times also published a fun British-Irish Dialect quiz this week. Based on the answers given to questions about phrases, words and their meanings, the quiz plots a heat map of where it thinks you are from.

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