Software

Generative art seems to be having a moment right now, so it’s only…

Weather Strip is a new weather app by visualization researcher Robin Stewart. It…

Paul Ford has been learning R to better understand the field of Statistics.…

PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…

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While it is often easy, and tempting, to write a…

If you’re into the notebook workflow, Observable Plot is a JavaScript library built…

Oftentimes visuals generated through code can seem cold and mechanical when you’re after…

How many times have you made a plot in R and thought, “I…

Amelia Wattenberger wrote a guide on how you can use the JavaScript library…

For Wired, Craig Mod writes about how he uses code as a way…

RAWGraphs, a tool conceived by DensityDesign in 2013, got a 2.0 update in…

When we visualize data to communicate to others, we must consider what others…

Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the ragg package, which makes font usage in R…

Twitter released a small JavaScript library to make density plots — for when…

Thomas Mock explains how to extract and parse data tables in image files…

The brickr package in R by Ryan Timpe takes an image, converts it…

D3.js, a flexible JavaScript library useful for visualization, can feel intimidating at first.…

If you can make maps in your software and customize the aesthetics, you…

Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can…

An often painful yet necessary step in visualization is to get your data…