Whenever I post a Sankey diagram (for example, here, here, and here), someone…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Make Sankey flow diagrams with Fineo, sort of
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Dotspotting to make city data more legible
Last year Stamen Design received a grant from the Knight News Challenge to…
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Inbox Influence shows political contributions by the people in your email
While browser plugins like Rapportive tell you the social networks that people in…
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Gender and time comparisons on Twitter
Men and women are different. You know that. But do they tweet differently?…
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GeoCommons 2.0, now with more mapping features
GeoCommons, an open repository of data and maps, launched version 2.0 this week,…
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DataWrangler for your data formatting needs
Formatting data is a necessary pain, so anything that makes formatting easier is…
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Google Correlate lets you see how your data relates to search queries
A while back, Google showed how Influenza outbreaks correlated to searches for flu-related…
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Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance
We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see…
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Infochimps R package for easy access to API
The data marketplace Infochimps recently expanded their API to include datasets such as…
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Open-source Data Science Toolkit
Pete Warden does the data community a solid and wraps up a collection…
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Code to make your own movie barcodes available
You know those compressed movie barcodes that we saw last week? Here’s a…
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WeatherSpark for more graphs about the weather than you will ever need
You know Matthew Ericson’s simple weather mashup? It shows only what you need…
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Data-Driven Documents for visualization in the browser
As we know, browsers keep getting better, and it grows easier every day…
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RStudio: a new IDE for R that makes coding easier
I tweeted this out earlier, but people are really excited about RStudio, an…
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Every baseball game and play since 1951 on your iPad
If you love baseball and have an iPad, you need Pennant, a project…
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Google opens up Public Data Explorer to your data
With Google’s recent data-related offerings, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise…
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Find more of the data you need with DataMarket
Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched…
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This Tract provides a view of Census data on your block
This Tract, by Michal Migurski of Stamen, with some help from Craig Mod,…
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Search how phrases have been used via Google Ngram Viewer
Language changes. Culture changes. And we can see some of these changes via…
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Advanced visualization without programming – Impure
Programming can be tough in the beginning, which can make advanced visualization beyond…