Software

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…

It took forever and it’s way overdue, but the United States Census Bureau…

We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…

A lot of data you get are estimates with uncertainty attached. Plus or…

Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…

NeuralTalk2 uses neural networks to caption images quickly. To demonstrate, the video below…

Plotly, a service that lets you make interactive charts online, open-sourced their main…

Vizable is a free iPad app from Tableau Software that helps you explore…

Data wrangling — formatting and cleaning — is a sore spot and stumbling…

Here’s a fun project to try over the weekend. Hannah Mitt and Andrew…