Sometimes you need a color scheme quick, and ColorBrewer is typically the de…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Colorgorical generates color schemes for you
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Practical tips for scraping data
It’s an unpleasant feeling when you have an idea for a project and…
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R in the data journalism workflow at FiveThirtyEight
R has found its way into a good number of news groups who…
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D3 4.0 released
I typically don’t care much about code releases, but every interactive chart I…
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Visual search tool for satellite imagery
Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by…
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Quartz Atlas opening up to creators
Last year Quartz announced Atlas, which was a place to find all of…
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Data USA makes government data easier to explore
Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look…
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Data Proofer automates the data checking process
Data checking is a pain and can be what stands between you and…
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Screen-capping Google Maps for traffic
Alyson Hurt quickly wrote some code to take screen captures of a Google…
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Vega-Lite for quick online charts
A few years ago, Trifacta released Vega, a “visualization grammar” that lets you…
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Suite of data tools for beginners, focused on fun
Data can be intimidating and confusing for beginners, and as a result they…
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US Census Bureau open source
It took forever and it’s way overdue, but the United States Census Bureau…
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Simulate the world as an emoji system of rules
We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…
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An uncertain spreadsheet for estimates
A lot of data you get are estimates with uncertainty attached. Plus or…
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R growth on StackOverflow reigns supreme
Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…
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Fast image classifications in real-time
NeuralTalk2 uses neural networks to caption images quickly. To demonstrate, the video below…
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Plotly.js, a JavaScript graphing library, open-sourced
Plotly, a service that lets you make interactive charts online, open-sourced their main…
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Vizable, for data exploration on an iPad
Vizable is a free iPad app from Tableau Software that helps you explore…
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Trifacta Wrangler to format and clean data
Data wrangling — formatting and cleaning — is a sore spot and stumbling…
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Turn a two-way mirror into an information display
Here’s a fun project to try over the weekend. Hannah Mitt and Andrew…