Software

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…

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

Mirador, a collaborative effort led by Andrés Colubri from Fathom Information Design, is…

Nobody asked for it, so you got it. The meme package for R…

Currently in beta, Beaker lets you work and experiment with data with different…

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…