Coding

Change graphic fonts with this R function in OS X.

Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…

In almost every tutorial on this site, stringsAsFactors is set to FALSE when you read in data with a function like read.csv(). Why isn’t is just set to FALSE by default? Of course, there’s a perfectly logical explanation.

Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…

“ArchieML (or ‘AML’) was created at The New York Times to make it easier to write and edit structured text on deadline that could be rendered in web pages, or more specifically, rendered in interactive graphics.” Less knowledge of markup language required.

I started working through Arduino Workshop by John Boxall over the holidays, and…

Visualization on the Web can be tricky for those unfamiliar with code. The…

Alyson Hurt for NPR Visuals describes how they make responsive data tables for…

Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…

While we’re on an R kick, Hilary Parker described how to create an…

Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…

Biostatistics PhD candidate Alyssa Frazee was tasked with teaching her sister, an undergraduate…

Mike Bostock, creator of D3, believes in using examples to show what can be done with his code.

A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.

Remember Bret Victor’s live coding talk from last month? He presented an example…

Use of Force layout, collision detection, and transitions to make this graphic from The New York Times

Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams asked visual designers why they write their own…

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see…

You know those compressed movie barcodes that we saw last week? Here’s a…

Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…