Apps

A challenge of using geographic maps to show data is that larger regions…

Sometimes you need a color scheme quick, and ColorBrewer is typically the de…

Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by…

Last year Quartz announced Atlas, which was a place to find all of…

Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look…

Data can be intimidating and confusing for beginners, and as a result they…

We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…

A lot of data you get are estimates with uncertainty attached. Plus or…

A mini-app from Shan Carter to convert GeoJSON to TopoJSON. Simplify geometry and change projections along the way.

Google Trends used to be a place where you looked up trends for…

You get your CSV file, snuggle under your blanket with a glass of…

Learning regular expressions tends to involve a lot of trial and error and…

Sometimes it can be a challenge to produce data graphics in vector format,…

Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out…

When you go to one of the major sites to look up the…

It’s not especially straightforward to know or find out what’s going on with…

Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source

Automatically make a color palette based on color space

Feeding off the momentum from Stephen Wolfram’s personal analytics earlier this year, Wolfram|Alpha…

Recently there’s been a spate of infographic tools popping up (e.g., easel.ly, venngage,…