It has been a whole ten minutes since posting a color selection tool,…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Color gradients that are accessible and perceptually steady
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Extract color palettes from images
OKpalette is a tool to grab a color palette from an image. Load…
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Hand-drawn illustration library
Open Peeps by Pablo Stanley is a library of people illustrations. You can…
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Observable notebooks get a rewrite
Observable, known for visualization-centric notebooks to share code, restarted fresh to adjust for…
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Datatype font turns text into charts
Enter text and get some charts using the Datatype font. There’s a bar…
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cosmos.gl, a WebGL library for visualizing network graphs
If you’re into visualizing networks, cosmos.gl looks like a fun library to play…
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Share small datasets stored in a URL
For those who want to share small datasets in a more straightforward way,…
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Weather forecast app, with uncertainty as a core feature
The folks who made Dark Sky, my once go-to weather app that was…
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Printable calendar on a single page
NeatoCal is a JavaScript-based calendar implementation that you can print on a single…
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R climbs back up into the top ten programming languages
There were murmurs that R was on the way down, but this year…
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Making 10M government PDF documents searchable
Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to…
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Running an LLM on your laptop
When you use a chatbot with companies like Google or OpenAI, your chats…
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Apple introduces third dimension to Swift Charts framework
Apple, with an announcement that the world has been waiting for, released 3-D…
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Anime.js, a JavaScript animation engine
New to me, Anime.js by Julian Garnier seems like a fun library to…
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Access previous versions of government websites with GovWayback
You can use the Internet Archive to access historical versions, but GovWayback makes…
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Hiding data in an emoji
Messing with how emojis are encoded, Paul Butler demonstrates how one might hide…
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Plain text box scores
New to me, Plain Text Sports shows box scores for the major sports…
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With InflataCart, your grocery list plus inflation data
If you shop at the grocery store regularly, you’ve felt prices increasing, especially…
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Color picker with R
As we have learned over the years, there can never be enough color-picking…
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Color Buddy, a tool for building color palettes for visualization
Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across…



















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
