Powerful Coverage Coming From Photographer John Moore Covering The Ebola Epidemic In Liberia Which Has

Two Murphy High School students stand bravely in front of their new school on the day it was desegregated - August 30, 1961.

Check out more Civil Rights images at Google Cultural Institute.

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Clouds Crashing Over Nebraska

Storm chaser Alex Schueth captured timelapse of a rare cloud formation called undulatus asperatus during a storm over Lincoln, Nebraska earlier this summer. The term, which translates to “roughed or agitated waves,” describes the bizarre rolling pattern formed by the clouds. Observers have noted that the phenomenon gives the impression of being underwater looking up at the surface at waves. Margaret LeMone, a cloud expert with the National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken photos of asperatus clouds for 30 years, and considers it a likely new cloud type.

Los Angeles, 1968 © Denise Scott Brown

Enisala, Romania, by Cezar Gabriel.

One interesting note about the temperature record set last month - it was a record in both surface and satellite measurements. This video discusses the different measurement techniques and why some people prefer one to another.

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989).

Over the past six years, Gianluca Gimini has asked more than 500 people to draw a bicycle from memory. This is harder than it sounds. Try it. Of the 370 people who really tried, about 25 percent managed to accurately sketch a bike.

Gimini doesn’t pay attention to the accurate drawings in his illustration project Velocipedia. Instead, he created digital renderings of some of the weirdest, most impractical designs that came from the other 75 percent of the test group. Gimini’s project is a celebration of the ways people can be accidentally creative.

Check out more photos and read about Gimini’s project.

Gluten-Free Works of Art.

The Gluten Free Museum is pretty amazing/hilarious.  They take famous works of art and remove the gluten from them, the results are amazing.

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Tumblr Web Data Connector

A colleague of mine was recently running a session on Google Analytics and showed how to use blending with an Excel spreadsheet to demonstrate the impact that certain blog posts had on page views. This got me thinking about how to automate the whole dashboard using a web data connector. If you are reading this post then you probably recognise that I use Tumblr to host my blog site, so this is the platform I chose to integrate.

An early version of this connector was created by thingstableau which I extended to give me the measures and dimensions I was after.

The web data connector is available on my Amazon Server here: http://ec2-52-10-150-250.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/tumblrsearch/tumblrwebconnect.html, and the code is on github here.

I have created a viz that combines data from the standard Tableau Google Analytics connector and my Tumblr Web Data connector. Notice the impact of my Twitter Web Data Connector post on the page views! Click on image to open the viz on Tableau Public.