Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across…
Apps
Software that makes a part of your data job easier.
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Color Buddy, a tool for building color palettes for visualization
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Rowboat for fast CSV exploration
Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
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Huetone for accessible color systems
There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
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Data GIF Maker lets you make animated GIFs with data
The Data GIF Maker is a fun tool from Google that lets you…
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Simple tool for proportional area charts
There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but…
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Find familiar places in new cities
If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure…
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Psuedo-charts with Microsoft Image Creator
With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires…
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Turn a static SVG into an interactive one, with Flourish
It’s straightforward to share a static SVG online, but maybe you want tooltips…
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Color palette generator
In the never-ending quest to find the perfect color scheme for any given…
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A color tool for accessible schemes
Leonardo is an open source project from Adobe that helps you pick accessible…
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Seeing just the questions
As a way to explore how people use questions in their writing, a…
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Weather Strip, an app that shows the forecast as a time series
Weather Strip is a new weather app by visualization researcher Robin Stewart. It…
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Find a color palette based on words
PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…
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RAWGraphs 2.0, an open-source tool to visualize data
RAWGraphs, a tool conceived by DensityDesign in 2013, got a 2.0 update in…
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Sim Daltonism, an intuitive app that simulates color blindness
When we visualize data to communicate to others, we must consider what others…
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Blacklight, a tool to see how the websites you visit are tracking you
Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can…
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Protecting your mobile data and privacy while at a protest
Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
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Remix and make music with audio from the Library of Congress
Brian Foo is the current Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His latest…
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Machine learning to help you not touch your face
The CDC recommends that you do not touch your face to minimize the…
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Botnet, a social network where it’s just you and a lot of bots
Botnet is a social media app where you’re the only human among a…