Software

A package to help you download and map TIGER shapefiles in R.

A Python library for visualization. Surprised I just heard of it.

Forgot about this. The d3-jetpack from Gregor Aisch makes some of the more tedious tasks in d3.js a bit shorter and intuitive.

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

A small set of tutorials to learn the basics of R.

Use the googlesheets package to import data.

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

R package for sentiment detection.

Change graphic fonts with this R function in OS X.

Like diff for code but for data tables.

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…

In almost every tutorial on this site, stringsAsFactors is set to FALSE when you read in data with a function like read.csv(). Why isn’t is just set to FALSE by default? Of course, there’s a perfectly logical explanation.

A mini-app from Shan Carter to convert GeoJSON to TopoJSON. Simplify geometry and change projections along the way.

An R package for image processing.

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

“Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table. Done in 100% JavaScript.”

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