Software

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…

Open data is everywhere. However, open data initiatives often manifest as mere CSV…

Recently there’s been a spate of infographic tools popping up (e.g., easel.ly, venngage,…

So I got to thinking, since I’m on this pie chart kick, “what…

I’m pretty sure I’m not in their target audience, but my main takeaway…

Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program.…

As a project of the Knight News Innovation Lab, Timeline by Verite is…

Remember Bret Victor’s live coding talk from last month? He presented an example…