Software

A quick list of command-line tools to putz around with data.

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

Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted to learn something new before retiring, so he bought a…

Google released a 21-part short video series that introduces R. Most of the…

A quick, three-step tutorial on how to make maps that look vintage in the open source QGIS. [via]

Thomas Levine provides a handful of useful tips for those getting started with R.

Xaquín G.V. has a dead simple tutorial on how to make a choropleth map with open source QGIS.

Mike Bostock, creator of D3, believes in using examples to show what can be done with his code.

NlpTools is a PHP library for natural language processing.

Polychart just launched its open beta. “Lightweight visual analytics and business intelligence on the web.” Mainly, a drag-and-drop interface for quick charts.

A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.

Kevin Jamieson, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the University of…

Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.

As an alternative to dot density maps, Binify by Kevin Schaul allows you…

Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula. A collaborative project from Mozilla Open News.

The healthvis R package tries to make creation of interactive graphics easier by rendering in D3.

The example repository for Mining the Social Web if you’re interested in getting started. The Twitter examples rely on a soon to be defunct API, because the book was written in 2011, but the rest is still valid.

Imperative vs Declarative programming. In the former you tell the computer how to do something, whereas with the latter, you tell the computer what to do. Worthwhile knowing with the recent launch of Vega. [via]

Visualization online can be a challenge if you don’t know how to program.…

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