Software

David C. Brock writing for IEEE Spectrum delves into the origins of PowerPoint.…

A straightforward tutorial on using squares instead of geographic boundaries.

Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…

Big community and lots of tools for both.

Elijah Meeks released Semiotic into the wild. It’s a framework that allows quick…

Next iteration of library for annotation. Made me delve into d3.js v4.

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…

A brief look at six libraries to make your charts move as you scroll.

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…