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A Golden Age of Data

Drowning in data overload? Drenched from drinking from the fire-hose of information? Help is at hand:  the Guardian now has a new Data Blog for data journalism and visualization.

And mapping every city, every town  block by block here is a searchable census analysis via the NYTimes. Check out your neighborhood.

And just take a look at this  graphic of Facebook connections and what it tells us about the world.

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