Software

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…

A challenge of using geographic maps to show data is that larger regions…

CSV files are great, but every now and then you have to edit…

D3 is the most commonly used JavaScript library for visualization on the web,…

Sometimes you need a color scheme quick, and ColorBrewer is typically the de…

It’s an unpleasant feeling when you have an idea for a project and…

R has found its way into a good number of news groups who…

I typically don’t care much about code releases, but every interactive chart I…

Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by…

Last year Quartz announced Atlas, which was a place to find all of…

Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look…

Data checking is a pain and can be what stands between you and…

Alyson Hurt quickly wrote some code to take screen captures of a Google…

A few years ago, Trifacta released Vega, a “visualization grammar” that lets you…

Data can be intimidating and confusing for beginners, and as a result they…