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 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…

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.