Software

R package for sentiment detection.

Change graphic fonts with this R function in OS X.

Like diff for code but for data tables.

Tabula, available for Windows and Mac, lets you extract data from PDF files,…

Government data sites are typically sluggish and a pain to use. So many…

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

Waiting in line stinks. I purposely go to the grocery store during off-times…

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.

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

An R package for image processing.

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

“Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table. Done in 100% JavaScript.”

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

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…