Software

The Natural Language Toolkit is a Python library that is commonly used to extract data from text. There’s a free, online-accessible book to learn how to use it.

By Samuel Huron and Romain Vuillemot, Visual Sedimentation is “a JavaScript library for visualizing streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation.” Be sure to check out the examples.

It’s not especially straightforward to know or find out what’s going on with…

Hadley Wickham has been working on a book that covers advanced programming in R, namely programming concepts and workflow and package development. It goes to print later this year, but the contents are freely available for consumption now.

Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source

Automatically make a color palette based on color space

Analyze web traffic [via]

Using this Protovis example with Les Misérables

A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG

Run R applications online

A tool that advertises “automatic insights” from complex data, looks like mainly with clustering and network graphs

Make a sound sculpture from any YouTube video

Built-in geographic projections, better transitions, and more extensive asynchronous requests

From businesses to demographics, there’s data for just about anywhere you are. Sitegeist,…

Useful with dense point clouds; also this method using size instead of color

RStudio, the folks behind the IDE for R released last year, continues to…

The ports and packages to make your charts look like they came from…

Mapping data over time can be challenging, especially when you have a lot…

I’m late to this party. TileMill, by mapping platform MapBox, is open source…

Feeding off the momentum from Stephen Wolfram’s personal analytics earlier this year, Wolfram|Alpha…