Software

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…

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