Software

Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…

Michal Migurski thinks about finding the right job for the tool rather than…

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

The New York Times released PourOver, a library that lets you do database-like…

Tabula, by Manuel Aristarán, came out months ago, but I’ve been poking at…

You can make static maps in R relatively well, if you know what…

R, the statistical computing language of choice and what I use the most,…

Biostatistics PhD candidate Alyssa Frazee was tasked with teaching her sister, an undergraduate…

Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on…

Friedrich Lindenberg and Gregor Aisch recently released dataset, a Python library to take…

A challenge these days with visualization is that a piece might look great…

Those who use the ggplot2 package in R and do everything else in…

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

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.