Map-making is a tricky business with many variables to consider that can directly…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Cartography Playground
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Kepler.gl, an open source tool for mapping large-scale spatial data
Kepler.gl, a collaboration between Uber and Mapbox, allows for easier mapping of large-scale…
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Visualization color picker, based on perception research
The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…
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Altair for visualization in Python
Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics primarily used for analysis. Altair is…
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Outlier detection in R
Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…
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Field Guide to the R Ecosystem
If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…
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Introduction to regular expressions
If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…
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R data structures for Excel users
Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when…
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Microsoft Excel painter
Remember the artist Tatsuo Horiuchi who uses Microsoft Excel to paint scenery? Four…
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Drawing with noise
This looks like a fun Processing tutorial by Etienne Jacob. Use noise to…
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Scrollama.js, a JavaScript library for scrollytelling
Russell Goldenberg released Scrollama.js in an effort to make scrollytelling more straightforward to…
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PowerPoint history lesson
David C. Brock writing for IEEE Spectrum delves into the origins of PowerPoint.…
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CARTOColors is a quick set of color schemes to copy
Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…
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Semiotic, a visualization framework
Elijah Meeks released Semiotic into the wild. It’s a framework that allows quick…
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R programming with Minecraft
The new R package miner is an interface to Minecraft via some simple…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js
Ian Johnson provides some good direction for those looking to get their feet…
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Quickly browse large CSV files on the desktop with Tad
When you first get a CSV file, sometimes it’s useful to poke at…
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Visualize large datasets with deck.gl
deck.gl is an open source framework developed by Uber to visualize large datasets…
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Automatic visualization is a bad idea, generally speaking
Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a…
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Making annotation easier with d3.js
There are two main reasons annotation is often a challenge. The first is…