Software

An API client for the ‘Wikidata’ store of semantic data.

“A command line utility for generating topojson from various data sources for fast maps.” Useful for use with D3.

“Datalib is a JavaScript data utility library. It provides facilities for data loading, type inference, common statistics, and string templates.”

Jeremy B. Merrill is working on the problem of too much data in PDF files. “My pattern solves this problem using tabula-extractor, the Ruby library (and command-line tool) that powers Tabula. It’s built to output data to CSVs or to a MySQL database.”

“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.

If you don’t want to bother with JavaScript but want to publish interactive…

For the folks who have to make graphics for all devices under the…

The R site has a new face. It looked dated for years —…

Inspired by the Python libraries RoboBrowser and BeautifulSoup, the rvest package by Hadley…

Planet Money goes back to a 1984 article by Steven Levy that discusses…

This seems like fun. The NodeJS package shp2stl by Doug McCune lets you…

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

R continues its growth, and usage in the sciences is no exception. Nature…

Charted is a tool used internally at Medium that they recently released into…

Despite the frequent use of choropleth maps online, they’re still kind of tricky…

Say you have time series data and you want to detect significant changes,…

I thought I linked to csvkit a while ago, but apparently not. If…

You’ve been able to visualize data with Python for a while, but Mac…

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

Online mapping just got an upgrade:
Announcing Mapbox GL JS — a fast…