Software

Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.

Color Buddy, a tool for building color palettes for visualization

Apps / color

Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across…
Rowboat for fast CSV exploration

Apps / csv, Fathom

Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
Huetone for accessible color systems

Apps / accessibility, Alexey Ardov, color

There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
Data GIF Maker lets you make animated GIFs with data

Apps / animation, GIF, Google

The Data GIF Maker is a fun tool from Google that lets you…
Simple tool for proportional area charts

Apps / area, Krisztina Szűcs

There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but…
The Nature of Code, refreshed

Coding / Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding…
easystats, an R package

Coding / package, R

The easystats R package in on my to-try list.
easystats is a collection…
BrailleR, a R package to improve access for blind users

Coding / accessibility, braille, R

From CRAN:
Blind users do not have access to the graphical output from…
Catalog of AI data tools

Software / AI, journalism, tools

Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI…
Find familiar places in new cities

Apps / AI, Raymond Kennedy, travel

If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure…
NYT Flash-based visualizations work again

Software / archive, flash, New York Times

In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for…
Psuedo-charts with Microsoft Image Creator

Apps / AI, Image Creator, Microsoft

With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires…
Visual history of Yahoo Pipes

Software / Glenn Fleishman, history, Yahoo

For Retool, Glenn Fleishman looks back to a time when data on the…
Excel World Championship

Software / championship, Excel

The Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 wrapped a couple weeks ago, and the…
Fonts for rendering lines and bars from data

Software / Dmitry Ivanov, font, Google

Google Fonts now provides two open source fonts by Dmitry Ivanov that let…
Turn a static SVG into an interactive one, with Flourish

Apps / Flourish, illustration, SVG

It’s straightforward to share a static SVG online, but maybe you want tooltips…
Python is coming to Excel

Software / Excel, Python

Excel is getting a bump in capabilities with Python integration. From Microsoft:
Excel…
Barbie and Oppenheimer themes for charts in R

Software / Barbie, ggplot, Matthew Jané, Oppenheimer, R, theme

Matthew Jané made a small R package called Theme Park, which is meant…
Understanding the SVG path element, a visual guide

Coding / Nanda Syahrasyad, paths, SVG

The SVG path element can be useful for drawing regular and irregular shapes.…
Mosaic, a framework for scalable and linked visualization

Software / framework, Interactive Data Lab, mosaic, research

From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project…

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