Software

Joshua Rosenberg describes his one-day experience teaching R to 7th graders:
[T]he activity…

For xkcd fans, here’s a JavaScript library by Tim Qian that lets you…

For Datawrapper, Lisa Charlotte Rost outlines the steps to prepare and clean your…

Microsoft just open sourced their data exploration tool known as SandDance:
For those…

A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts using…

D3.js can do a lot of things, which provides valuable flexibility to construct…

A few years ago, The New York Times asked readers to guess a…

Machine learning can feel like a foreign concept only useful to those with…

FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making…

TwoTone, by Datavized and supported by the Google News Initiative, is a straightforward…

Here’s a fun thing to try in R. Jean Fan posted some code…

Picular is a simple tool that lets you search for a topic, and…

Map-making is a tricky business with many variables to consider that can directly…

Kepler.gl, a collaboration between Uber and Mapbox, allows for easier mapping of large-scale…

The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…

Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics primarily used for analysis. Altair is…

Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…

If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…

If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…

Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when…