Gamifying fake news

Hello, hacks and hackers! Check out the "fake news" game, data viz textbook and other new tools and resources in this week's "Worth a Read":

Worth a read:

• Cambridge researchers developed a browser game that puts users into a role as a news producer where they have to learn how to spot fake news (Nature)
• A data scientist used Python and open data to build an interactive map of all food/drink places in Edinburgh with outdoor seating, and she documented her process (Towards Data Science)
• Claus Wilke wrote an entire textbook on data visualization in R Markdown using RStudio as his text editor, it’s also available as a hard copy (Fundamentals of Data Visualization)

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