Your email says a lot about who you are, who you interact with,…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Graph and explore your Gmail inbox
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Simple data converter from Excel
If you’ve ever created an interactive graphic or anything else that requires that…
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Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps
In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and…
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Stamen makes experimental prettymaps
Add another toy to Stamen’s bag of tricks. The recently launched prettymaps by…
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Gapminder makes its way to the desktop
You’ve seen the presentation. You’ve seen the motion graph tool. But up until…
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Poyozo the personal data gatherer
Take a moment and think off all the data you put other there…
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Stack Overflow for data geeks
I can’t count how many times I’ve googled a programming-related question and found…
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JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0 released
Visualization in JavaScript is all the rage these days. Just a couple of…
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Protovis 3.2 released – more examples and layouts
The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…
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R for enterprise?
Norman Nie, co-creator of SPSS (acquired by IBM for $1.2 billion last summer),…
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Current tracks and visualizes memes
It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…
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Elastic Lists code open-sourced
Moritz Stefaner, whose work we’ve seen a few times here on FD, just…
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HTML5 visualization readiness
Everyone’s been bashing Flash lately and holding HTML5 up on a pedestal. This…
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Facebook users who don’t know they are sharing
I’m pretty sure all this Facebook stuff will blow over soon enough. Most…
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Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.
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Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy
It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…
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R is an ‘epic fail’ – or how to make statisticians mad
Statisticians are mad and out for blood. Someone called R an epic fail…
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A guide to geostatistical mapping with open-source tools
Mapping with R and other free and open-source programs feels clunky and hacked-together…
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Data visualization tutorial in Processing
If you absolutely refuse to touch any code, I suggest Many Eyes or…
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Map and report data with InstantAtlas
As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…