NICAR15 Links

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Mr. Chartmaker: Impressive new responsive charting tool built by Gregor Aisch for Upshot
http://vis4.net/blog/posts/seven-features-youll-wantin-your-next-charting-tool/

markdowneyjr: Interesting (though probably fragile) approach to using Markdown for editing (i.e. how we use Google COPY docs)
https://github.com/veltman/markdowneyjr

Change Agent: neat, if maybe ill-advised usage of Github to version simple key/value data (written by someone at Github)
https://github.com/benbalter/change_agent

Wolfram Data Drop: Crazy new "give us all your data" platfrom that integrates with Wolfram Alpha
https://datadrop.wolframcloud.com/

CensusScope: old school census data site that has precomputed 2000 and 2010 gini indices for cities and metro areas
http://censusscope.org/

"Why Most Published Research Findings are False": crazy article that has apparently had huge influence by debunking basically all medical research
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

RCFP state-by-state guide to transparency laws
http://www.rcfp.org/open-government-guide

dataset.py: a super-lightweight Python ORM
http://dataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Geomancer: awesome Knight + AP project to automatically connect geographies to relevant data from census/bls/etc using a wide variety of identifiers
http://geomancer.io/