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Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters is a technology writer and rabble-rouser with a Master's Degree in Folklore. She was working on a PhD in Comparative Literature, but chose instead to write about data, culture, education and technology outside of academia rather than finish her dissertation. Audrey has written for ReadWriteWeb, Huffington Post, and NPR. 
Visualization of the Week: Four ways to look at Obama's 2013 BudgetThe New York Times visualizes Obama's proposed budget.
A New York Times visualization offers a compelling alternative to wading through pages of President Obama's 2013 budget.
Strata Week: The data behind Yahoo's front pageA new look at Yahoo's traffic, the challenge of scaling Tumblr, and a host of visualization guidelines.
In this week's data news: Yahoo visualizes its front page traffic and demographics, why Tumblr is tougher to scale than Twitter, and a look at what you need to consider as you build visualizations.
Visualization of the Week: Chasing storm chasersA visualization tracks the people who track big storms.
This week's visualization comes from Tim Dye, who has mapped the routes of storm chasers alongside the weather patterns they pursue.
Strata Week: Your personal automated data scientistWolfram releases a pro tool, protecting data during times of need, and new doubts about dating services.
Wolfram|Alpha launches a pro version of its computational knowledge engine, guidelines emerge for protecting the data of people in crisis, and researchers cast doubt on dating sites' matchmaking algorithms.
Visualization of the Week: Mapping Mexico's drug warDiego Valle-Jones' interactive map illustrates the toll of Mexico's drug war.
This week's visualization comes from Diego Valle-Jones, who has created a powerful interactive map of the drug-related homicides in Mexico since 2004.
Strata Week: The Megaupload seizure and user dataMegaupload's demise raises data questions and Bloomberg opens up its market data interface.
In this week's data news, Megaupload users face data deletion, Bloomberg opens its market data interface and Pentaho changes its licensing for Kettle.
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