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Visualising data with the Datapress WordPress plugin

{{Exhibit}} {{Footnotes}} Here’s a useful plugin for bloggers working with data: Datapress allows you to quickly visualise a dataset as a table, timeline, scatter plot, bar chart, ‘intelligent list’ (allowing you to sort by more than one value at once – see this example) or map. Once installed, the plugin adds a new button to the ‘Upload/Insert’ row in the
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Removing Nofollow on blog links and meta – and invisible comments

A couple months ago I installed a plugin on the blog that meant search engines would index links in comments: by default WordPress uses ‘nofollow‘ on comments to stop spammers abusing them to boost search engine rankings, but that prevents genuine commenters getting credit for their contributions. One problem: as one commenter pointed out, the blog as a whole was
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