Software

The new R package miner is an interface to Minecraft via some simple…

Ian Johnson provides some good direction for those looking to get their feet…

When you first get a CSV file, sometimes it’s useful to poke at…

deck.gl is an open source framework developed by Uber to visualize large datasets…

Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a…

There are two main reasons annotation is often a challenge. The first is…

Facebook released Prophet, which is a procedure to quickly forecast with time series…

Some say annotation is the most important layer for charts meant for public…

For Excel users getting started with R, pain oftentimes finds its way into…

There are a lot of R packages, which is why before I implement…

There are a lot of visualization-related tools out there. Here’s a simple categorized…

Embedding.js is a work-in-progress JavaScript library by Beau Cronin that makes it more…

The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…

D3.js, or Data-Driven Documents, version 4.0 was released a few months ago, so…

Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…

In case you didn’t get the memo, pattern fills are back and so…

Map making is a finicky challenge where oftentimes your map data — points,…

One of best ways to learn visualization in any given software is to…

Interactive charts in R are still so-so, but if you don’t mind giving…

Last month Pitch Interactive launched an online tool for tiled cartograms, or tilegrams…