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Re:Dear Data by dandelany on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:41PM (#9233099)
These are lovely. I like how the informal setting allows for experimentation with really non-standard forms of visualization, the readability of the data varies but they're all beautiful. I especially like all of Stefanie's symbols, and Giorgia's mirror visualization.

You should consider getting a PO Box for guest submissions - I know I'd love to make one!

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Re:Dear Data by vijayr on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:43PM (#9233120)
Totally agree with the PO box idea. This project somewhat reminds me of http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/

I understand this is personal between two friends, but if there were a PO Box, thousands of people can participate and it would be a lot of fun

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Re:Dear Data by netinstructions on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:01PM (#9233238)
Tangent: I wonder how interesting (or useful/useless) it would be to train an image classifier using http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/ and then start looking at a bunch of random pictures.

Could it be a repeatable way to find things like the face on mars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)#.22Fac... except... a giraffe on mars?

Who knows, there could be giraffes everywhere, we're just not seeing them.

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