A blog covering all aspects of thematic mapping – i.e. projecting data onto maps using APIs.
A new set of data visualisation norms is beginning to emerge on the web. For that to happen, there need to be simple tools, that enable larger numbers of people to want to publishing their data in forms that can be made beautiful. These are some very useful tools.
This is really quite beautiful. If you’re involved in open source projects, or if you use software version control for your own projects, gource can turn the developing directory tree into a movie, with each committer tending to the nodes over time. It’s more like watching gardeners planting and pruning than sterile software development.
A realtime heatmap / codecoverage tool for JS.
DataWrangler (demonstrated at StrataConf just now) is a very useful looking tool for first, extracting data from semi-structured files and (more importantly) secondly creating a script for doing the same extract again on similar data.
Very aesthetically pleasing 3D renderings of the Mandelbrot Set
Plots comparative speeds of different JS engines on different architectures over time when tested with sunspider and v8 benchmarks. At the time of writing it shows that firefox 4 is taking big steps to being as fast as the V8 engine in google chrome.
Thirteen easy pieces on stats, including: sampling, confidence intervals, regression analysis, averages, risk & uncertainty.
A semantic look at the structure of the soft drinks industry