Software

Everyone’s been bashing Flash lately and holding HTML5 up on a pedestal. This…

I’m pretty sure all this Facebook stuff will blow over soon enough. Most…

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.

It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…

Statisticians are mad and out for blood. Someone called R an epic fail…

Mapping with R and other free and open-source programs feels clunky and hacked-together…

If you absolutely refuse to touch any code, I suggest Many Eyes or…

As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…

Some people love ’em and others hate ’em. Now you can play with…

Frederik Seiffert provides this nifty tool, LastHistory, to visualize your Last.fm listening history.…

Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…

Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…

Statisticians are generally behind the times when it comes to online applications. There…

What if you could see all the individual bits of information scattered across…

Nebul.us is an online application, currently in private beta, that aggregates and visualizes…

Like it or not, Google Maps mashups continue to be a Web favorite.…

This is a guest post by Craig Mod, who collaborated with Information Architects,…

your.flowingdata (YFD), a Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself, is…

This is a guest review by Peter Robinet of Bubble Foundry, a web…

Python is a powerful programming language that’s good for a lot of things.…