With Google’s recent data-related offerings, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Google opens up Public Data Explorer to your data
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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…
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R is the need-to-know stat software
This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…
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Format and clean your data with Google Refine
When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it’s nicely…
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Find the names in your data with Mr. People
Inspired by Shan Carter’s simple data converter, appropriately named Mr. Data Converter, Matthew…
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Why everyone should learn programming
Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…
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How people in your area spend money
The personal finance site Mint aggregates spending data from four million users. At…
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Find your flight via visual interface
Booking flights became so much easier when it all shifted online, but it…
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How K-12 schools in your area measure up
In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…
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The state of mapping APIs
O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…
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Graph and explore your Gmail inbox
Your email says a lot about who you are, who you interact with,…
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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…