Assorted Links

1. The monumental scale of human sacrifice in the Aztec capital
   
   
2. 3D interactive Data Visualization that renders all 47K buildings in Manhattan
   
   
3. Microsoft has released 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data via GIS Song
   
   
4. The late Waldo Tobler's legendary, seminal, (but unpublished) PhD thesis from 1961 is downloadable online. HT Michiel Meeteren
   
   
5. A really straightforward abstract
   
   
6. An exploration of color Palettes to communicate uncertainty, via Andy Woodruff
   
   
7. One of the greatest scenes in documentary history
   
   
8. paper: Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records (ungated version and replication files), by Carl Schmertmann and M.Gonzaga

image credit: Schmertmann and M.Gonzaga