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Description: provide a generator ecosystem, with robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprising tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications
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Description: Home of agate, csvkit, proof, and other tools for journalists and data users
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Description: data extraction from web pages
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Description: Waypoints has been around for a while, and supports both vanilla JS and jQuery integration for interactive scrolling
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Description: a command line tool that let's you develop for Locomotive CMS right on your local machine
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Description: a progressive framework for building user interfaces
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Description: get analytics from an URL
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Description: a data-driven journalism agency, providing data-driven investigations, research, news stories, visualizations, interactives, on-demand projects and training to media companies and NGOs
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Description: Make stroke drawing animation without JavaScript. Simply drag and drop your stroke based SVG
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Description: a free cloud-hosted, zero-client app that combines data preparation and visualization in one
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Description: JavaScript library for visualizing streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation
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Description: create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site
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Description: Typing.io is a typing tutor/trainer for programmers. Typing.io's lessons are based on open source code, allow you to practice typing the key sequences that appear in real code
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Description: Tulip is an application to make building choropleth styled maps easy.
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Description: transform HTML to markdown
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Description: quickly and automatically extracts temporal references in freeform text to generate a visual timeline
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Description: a collection of R packages that share common philosophies and are designed to work together. This site is a work-in-progress guide to the tidyverse and its packages
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Description: Let anyone aggregate and visualize data with the simplicity of spreadsheet tools, but produce reproducible source code making the analysis fully transparent and open
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Description: using this tool you can visualize any text as a network
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Description: makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease
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Description: a free Google Sheet template which lets you setup and run automated collection of search results from Twitter
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Description: a Ruby library for reading, writing, and manipulating CSV, tab-delimited and Excel data
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Description: Create beautiful charts from HTML tables with jqPlot and this little jQuery plugin
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Description: API with data about Star Wars all data available as JSON here
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Description: lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG
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Description: a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser
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Description: A Jekyll template for publishing websites and articles
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Description: a self-contained, high-reliability, embedded, full-featured, public-domain, SQL database engine. SQLite is the most used database engine in the world
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Description: A force directed graph layout algorithm in JavaScript, using some real world physics to try and figure out how to show a network graph in a way that looks good
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Description: beautiful CMS for Rails developers
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Description: D3 Plugin for visualizing flows through a network on a leaflet map
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Description: Create Interactive Maps in Minutes
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Description: JavaScript SVG library for the modern web to create interactive, resolution-independent vector graphics that will look great on any size screen
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Description: Ruby Gem for smarter importing of CSV Files as Array(s) of Hashes, with optional features for processing large files in parallel, embedded comments, unusual field- and record-separators, flexible mapping of CSV-headers to Hash-keys
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Description: a DSL (Domain-Specific Language) for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
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Description: Statistical methods in readable JavaScript for browsers, servers, and people.
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Description: A data visualization framework for React. It provides three types of frames (XYFrame, ORFrame, NetworkFrame) which allow you to deploy a wide variety of charts that share the same rules for how to display information
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Description: Selectize is the hybrid of a textbox and select box. It's jQuery-based and it's useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on.
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Description: ScrollStory is a jQuery-based library used for some interactive scrolling projects at The New York Times. It has a super clear API and supports tons of options
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Description: ScrollMagic is quite robust, well-documented, and totally customizable library for interactive scrolling. It has a great add-on for debugging. It also has no dependencies.
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Description: open source and collaborative framework for extracting, scraping, the data you need from websites
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Description: Reusable D3 Sankey diagram using d3.Chart
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Description: simple & light weight dashboard framework in javascript
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Description: Ruby/Graphviz provides an interface to layout and generate images of directed graphs in a variety of formats (PostScript, PNG, etc.) using GraphViz.
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Description: a R package for statistics
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Description: a common, beautiful interface to tabular data, no matter the format
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Description: an all custom interactive scrolling library, so you can have it do whatever you want. However, it involves more coding and some math.
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Description: open-source, scalable database that makes building realtime apps dramatically easier
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Description: the leading open source CMS on the Ruby on Rails framework
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Description: R package to create, customize and publish interactive javascript visualizations from R using a familiar lattice style plotting interface
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Description: a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams
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Description: project.org statistical analysis software
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Description: This book brings the fundamentals of R coding to you, using the same material developed as part of the industry-leading Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization
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Description: Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python
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Description: provides a clean and simple interface for you to perform common PostgreSQL tasks quickly
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Description: A graphical toolkit for visualization, designed for custom graphs, it is still easy to create many standard chart types
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Description: A guide made to understand data better
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Description: Python library for creating optimized, repeatable and self-documenting data analysis pipelines
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Description: a JavaScript library built with D3.js providing a graph based search interface generated in HTML and SVG usable on any modern browser
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Description: in-browser dataviz tools
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Description: handle svg
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Description: Importing a CSV dump of Postgres data into Heroku
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Description: a complete rewrite of pgAdmin, built using Python and Javascript/jQuery. A desktop runtime written in C++ with Qt allows it to run standalone for individual users, or the web application code may be deployed directly on a webserver for use by one or more users through their web browser
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Description: kind of obvious -> a website in which tools to work with data are presented as a periodic table
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Description: Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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Description: Parse addresses, names & more
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Description: a toolkit for making domain-specific probabilistic parsers, built on python-crfsuite
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Description: powerful, in-browser CSV parser for big boys and girls
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Description: Search, visualize, and review your documents. Up to hundreds of thousands of them, in any format.
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Description: free org chart tool that makes it easy to create, share and maintain Organizational Charts and network viz
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Description: a comprehensive, component-based software suite for machine learning and data mining
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Description: a web client (service) that translates spatial files into GeoJSON using the ogr2ogr command line tool for use in JavaScript web applications and frameworks
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Description: quickly scrape web data without coding. Turn web pages into structured spreadsheets within clicks
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Description: a package for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things: a powerful N-dimensional array object; sophisticated (broadcasting) functions; tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code; useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.
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Description: Part writing tool, part interactive programming environment - for every stage of research from experimentation to publication
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Description: Ruby CMS for developers and designers. With simple code that's easy to follow, Nesta is easily extended using the Sinatra web framework. There's no database to configure – everything is stored in text files.
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Description: a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, Neo4j is the most popular graph database according to DB-Engines ranking
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Description: convert your Excel data into one of several web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML
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Description: Mother Jones's Storytelling Tools
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Description: GUI to edit SVG in your fucking browser, also open source
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Description: a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript
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Description: an open-source platform for studying media ecosystems
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Description: an editor for map data
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Description: LotrProject is dedicated to bringing J.R.R Tolkien's works to life through various creative web projects
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Description: repository of journalist's lookup tables
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Description: A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras
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Description: a beautiful Open Source CMS that makes it super easy to develop and design exactly what your clients need
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Description: Turn datasets into stories
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Description: Javascript library to add fast and interactive graph visualization into web-based products
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Description: Several templates and codes to work with graphics
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Description: Python charting library for those who need charts now
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Description: guide teaches the basics of manipulating data using JavaScript in the browser, or in node.js
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Description: a library of free Bootstrap 3 themes and templates for dashboards
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Description: Kibana lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack
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Description: jStat provides native javascript implementations of statistical functions
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Description: editor generated from the JSON Schema
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Description: plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features
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Description: An easy way to use Jekyll and Github Pages as a "database" - powers this website
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Description: opensource javascript lib for making simple user interface controls leveraged by D3 .
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Description: good library, simple to use for just triggering events, but definitely not designed for customized interactive scrolling
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Description: a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development, and learning
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Description: Use JavaScript visualization libraries at the R console, just like plots
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Description: provides the power necessary to let you build semantic templates effectively with no frustration
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Description: a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models
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Description: These guides are designed to make you immediately productive with Rails, and to help you understand how all of the pieces fit together
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Description: a d3 plugin for interactive scrolling. It is only the library that specifically implements the transition to and from a fixed position graphic.
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Description: in-browser dataviz tool for simple charts
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Description: D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit
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Description: The Google Maps Geocoding API is a service that provides geocoding and reverse geocoding of addresses
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Description: explore data using this Google Cloud tool
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Description: cloud data service to visually explore, clean, and prepare data for analysis
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Description: provides a productive, interactive, and integrated tool to explore, visualize, analyze and transform data, bringing together the power of Python, SQL, JavaScript, and the Google Cloud Platform with services such as BigQuery and Storage
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Description: create a Google chart in seconds
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Description: KMZ and KML files 5.556 cities in Brazil
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Description: ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics
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Description: a free and open source software tool that serves as an introduction to spatial data analysis
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Description: a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software
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Description: A Jekyll template for publishing single-page websites and articles that are incredibly readable and fully responsive
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Description: Quickly turn your spreadsheets into stunning online charts, maps and interactive stories
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Description: CSV parsing tool with Ruby
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Description: intended as a complete replacement to the CSV standard library. It is significantly faster and smaller while still being pure Ruby code. It also strives for a better interface
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Description: Facets contains two robust visualizations to aid in understanding and analyzing machine learning datasets. Get a sense of the shape of each feature of your dataset using Facets Overview, or explore individual observations using Facets Dive
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Description: Data Science without Programming. Powered by R. Explore your data by transforming, visualizing, and modeling.
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Description: a library for creating fast, dynamic and interactive HTML5 visualizations
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Description: a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases
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Description: a free-to-use, hosted, mobile responsive visual with built in ability for story telling, from ICFJ
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Description: collecting what digital humanities and news nerds would want to explore together and how we might facilitate it
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Description: WebGL2 powered geospatial visualization layers, or an overlay suite for React providing a set of highly performant data visualization overlays
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Description: An Open Source data sharing, versioning, and collaboration platform for SQLite databases, with special integration for DB Browser for SQLite.
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Description: a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite
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Description: examples on how to build the best visualization with your data
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Description: provides an instant, read-only JSON API for any SQLite database
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Description: Generate maps from address or places
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Description: compelling, data-driven narratives and tools for exploration and data preparation
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Description: a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data
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Description: Data Wrangling cheatsheet with dplyr and tidyr
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Description: A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets
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Description: make cool GIFs from datasets
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Description: D4 is a friendly charting DSL for D3. The goal of D4 is to allow developers to quickly build data-driven charts with little knowledge of the internals of D3.
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Description: A d3.js-powered workbench for rapid visualization prototyping
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Description: Ruby wrapper for D3.js
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Description: a simple, highly configurable script built on d3.js for creating simple, attractive pie charts. It's free, open source, and found on github
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Description: D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R
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Description: d3-rails provides D3 for Rails 3.1 and higher
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Description: primary JS library for data viz uses CDN by Mike Bostock. D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
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Description: open source javascript library to render Spot Matrix Charts using D3.js
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Description: D3 tutorials for everyone
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Description: generate a histogram with D3
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Description: generator.com simple bar chart tool using D3
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Description: open source javascript library to render Dot Matrix Charts using D3.js
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Description: a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library to add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table
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Description: Selections in d3.js with a simple bar chart from Ian Johnson on Vimeo.
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Description: built-in annotation types, or extend it to make custom annotations. It is made for d3-v4 in SVG
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Description: Pivot tables for CSV files in the terminal
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Description: Find (fuzzy) matches between two CSV files in the terminal
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Description: a suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV
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Description: Draw bar charts from CSV files in the terminal
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Description: Convert CSV files into a SQLite database
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Description: the easy way to create a CSV of essentially anything in Ruby, in full pirate regalia. It works better if you are wearing a tricorne
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Description: CSV importer turns every row of a CSV file into an object. Each column is matched and tested against a given class. You can provide a dictionary with translations between the CSV column names and the object properties
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Description: a library for accessing a spreadsheet as a native Python object suitable for templating
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Description: scrape stuff online with this browser plugin
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Description: Convert your PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Convert various formats to PDF.
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Description: select your very own colour scheme
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Description: CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript
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Description: a code-editor component that can be embedded in Web pages
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Description: best tool for data conversion into other formats
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Description: React components that make up the UI for Quartz Chartbuilder
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Description: simple chart making tool
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Description: Useful CDN links for several JS libraries
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Description: the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance
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Description: Navigation scripting & testing for PhantomJS and SlimerJS
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Description: several tools from dataviz agency Bocoup
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Description: project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex.
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Description: a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping
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Description: Useful base64-image converter
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Description: An extensive list of interesting open source projects written in С, C++, Clojure, Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, Elm, Golang, Haskell, JavaScript, Lua, OCaml, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala etc.
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Description: data warehouse software facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage using SQL
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Description: a tool for indexing large amounts of both unstructured (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search.
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Description: an open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator documents into html and css
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Description: a Python data analysis library that is optimized for humans instead of machines. It is an alternative to numpy and pandas that solves real-world problems with readable code
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Description: A web framework for building virtual reality experiences
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Description: open source repository by Adobe
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Description: A simple interface to arbitrarily arrange items in a grid for something like a cartogram
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Description: introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers
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Description: Information is Beautiful's tool for making data, information and ideas beautiful
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Description: an ecosystem of modular data visualization components
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Description: declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing visualization designs
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Description: Visualization Verification View (V³) aims to serve as a "view source" for data-visualizations
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Description: A Jekyll template for publishing websites and articles
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Description: Unfolding is a library to create interactive maps and geovisualizations in Processing and Java
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Description: JavaScript library that provides useful functional coding helpers without extending any builtin objects
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Description: HTML generator
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Description: a jewel for creating svg shapes, experimental environment for rapidly prototyping visualization code
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Description: TopoJSON is an extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology
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Description: Web Widget for Visualizing Temporal Data
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Description: timeplot widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them
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Description: elegant timelines and maps created very easily
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Description: powerful and simple to use chart library for creating time based charts in pure HTML5JavaScript
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Description: visualization of large tree structures
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