Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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R data structures for Excel users
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Microsoft Excel painter
Remember the artist Tatsuo Horiuchi who uses Microsoft Excel to paint scenery? Four…
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Drawing with noise
This looks like a fun Processing tutorial by Etienne Jacob. Use noise to…
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Scrollama.js, a JavaScript library for scrollytelling
Russell Goldenberg released Scrollama.js in an effort to make scrollytelling more straightforward to…
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PowerPoint history lesson
David C. Brock writing for IEEE Spectrum delves into the origins of PowerPoint.…
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CARTOColors is a quick set of color schemes to copy
Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…
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Semiotic, a visualization framework
Elijah Meeks released Semiotic into the wild. It’s a framework that allows quick…
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R programming with Minecraft
The new R package miner is an interface to Minecraft via some simple…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js
Ian Johnson provides some good direction for those looking to get their feet…
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Quickly browse large CSV files on the desktop with Tad
When you first get a CSV file, sometimes it’s useful to poke at…
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Visualize large datasets with deck.gl
deck.gl is an open source framework developed by Uber to visualize large datasets…
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Automatic visualization is a bad idea, generally speaking
Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a…
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Making annotation easier with d3.js
There are two main reasons annotation is often a challenge. The first is…
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Prophet for forecasting with a lot of data
Facebook released Prophet, which is a procedure to quickly forecast with time series…
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Annotate charts with a few clicks using ChartAccent
Some say annotation is the most important layer for charts meant for public…
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R for Excel users
For Excel users getting started with R, pain oftentimes finds its way into…
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Now over 10,000 packages in R
There are a lot of R packages, which is why before I implement…
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Catalog of visualization tools
There are a lot of visualization-related tools out there. Here’s a simple categorized…
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Embedding.js: Data-driven environments for virtual reality
Embedding.js is a work-in-progress JavaScript library by Beau Cronin that makes it more…
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Interpolate your data for animation in R
The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…