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Only In L.A.: Google Maps Murder Mashup

The Los Angeles Times newspaper has built a brilliant Google Maps mashup called THE HOMICIDE MAP showing all murders in the city this year (515 at post time). The functionality of the data presentation, and user-selectable options for specifying age, race, gender, cause of death and day of the week are enough to make Edward Tufte cry.

Original post by Mike

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