Software

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…

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…