The Lowly Wonk

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Three cheers for crowd source/ open source

Google is offering $10k in prizes for visualizations of the U.S. Federal budget.

R has overtaken Matlab and SAS in popularity

HP is now including a Linux-based OS with every PC it ships.
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