Software

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

Thoughtfulness in design from d3.js maker Mike Bostock. One of the main reasons I go with d3.js over other libraries.

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…

Small projects. Decide what you want to make first, and then figure out how to do it.

There’s also a collection of video tutorials on how to use QGIS to greater effect.

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 how-to to break down images into just their colors.

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

An R package for “Network visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ framework” by the folks at Iowa State.

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

JavaScript library from Wall Street Journal to make the now popular square state grid.

The simple clustering technique implemented with d3.js.

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…

An R package for chess move generation and validation.

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

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