50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Geospatial, Data Science, and Visualization

Twitter, a global sounding board for experts, is a natural fit for this growing sector and the perfect place to bring together collective expertise for greater development and collaboration.

How to map public debt data with ggplot2

Here, Sharp Sight scraped some data from Wikipedia and plot it using ggplot2.

80% of this is ggplot2 and dplyr, take a look at how everything is being put together.

Don’t just run the code. Study it. You’ll become a better data scientist by studying other people’s code.

3 Open Source Alternatives to ArcGIS Desktop

ArcGIS is an incredibly powerful tool, but unfortunately, it’s a proprietary product.

GIS users have a few choices for using open source tools to design maps and work with spatial data that can be obtained under free and open source licenses and which run on a variety of different non-Windows operating systems.

5 Great Programming Languages that Nobody Wants to Learn