Software

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…

There’s no direct download, but there is an API.

Tabula, available for Windows and Mac, lets you extract data from PDF files,…

Government data sites are typically sluggish and a pain to use. So many…

Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…

Waiting in line stinks. I purposely go to the grocery store during off-times…

Google Trends used to be a place where you looked up trends for…

Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…

If you don’t want to bother with JavaScript but want to publish interactive…

For the folks who have to make graphics for all devices under the…

The R site has a new face. It looked dated for years —…

Inspired by the Python libraries RoboBrowser and BeautifulSoup, the rvest package by Hadley…