Software

This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…

When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it’s nicely…

Inspired by Shan Carter’s simple data converter, appropriately named Mr. Data Converter, Matthew…

Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…

The personal finance site Mint aggregates spending data from four million users. At…

Booking flights became so much easier when it all shifted online, but it…

In collaboration with NBC News and The Gates Foundation, Ben Fry-headed Fathom Design…

O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…

Your email says a lot about who you are, who you interact with,…

If you’ve ever created an interactive graphic or anything else that requires that…

In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and…

Add another toy to Stamen’s bag of tricks. The recently launched prettymaps by…

You’ve seen the presentation. You’ve seen the motion graph tool. But up until…

Take a moment and think off all the data you put other there…

I can’t count how many times I’ve googled a programming-related question and found…

Visualization in JavaScript is all the rage these days. Just a couple of…

The most recent version of Protovis, the open-source visualization library that uses JavaScript…

Norman Nie, co-creator of SPSS (acquired by IBM for $1.2 billion last summer),…

It’s not easy keeping up with what’s going on around the Web. Trending…

Moritz Stefaner, whose work we’ve seen a few times here on FD, just…