Tracking the tools I've found useful. Not intended to be exhaustive; instead this is the short list of items that I've actively used or found useful.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Oh Shit, Git! | Useful for those already using git for help fixing mistakes. |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Database Normalization | |
| Data Science Tool Kit | |
| Learn JS Data |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Tabula | Application for liberating PDF-bound data |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| CDNjs | CDN Repo for hosted, current versions of most main-stream/mature JS libraries |
| Crossfilter.js | Crossfilter is like a client-side OLAP server, quickly grouping, filtering, and aggregating tens or hundreds of thousands of rows of raw data very, very quickly. Crossfire is intended to be combined with a graphing or charting library like D3, Highcharts, or the Google Visualization API; it doesn’t have a UI of its own. |
| Crossfilter Tutorial | |
| Mustache.js | Logic-less templating library |
| Simple Statistics.js | for JavaScript in Node & the browser |
| Textures.js | SVG patterns for Data Visualization |
| Recline.js | A simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript |
| Eloquent Javascript | Now also a book |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Hands-on Data Science | |
| Beginner's Intro to R | |
| Swirl Stats | |
| Introduction to dplyr | |
| rPostgreSQL | Use R with a PostgreSQL database |
| ggPlot Themes | |
| TryR | Codeschool course |
| R Language & Concepts | |
| Data Analysis and Visualization Using R | A short Intro to R course |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| in R | Import Google Analytics' Core Reporting API query results directly into R |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| How to use bl.ocks.org | by Mike Bostock; Live previews of Github Gists |
| Periodic Table of Data Visualization | |
| DashingD3js | |
| dc.js Tutorial | dc.js makes interactive dashboards. Combines the slicy-dicey of Crossfilter.js with the beauty of d3.js charts |
| Color | |
| CSS Named Color Chart | Named colors with swatches |
| Colorpicker for Data Visualization | color conversion via chroma.js |
| I Want Hue | Colors for data scientists |
| Resource | Language | Depends | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| d3 | JavaScript | OG | |
| Flot | JavaScript | jQuery | Good for streaming data |
| Tau Charts | JavaScript | d3.js | |
| Sparklines | JavaScript | Small Javascript library for creating sparkline graphs | |
| Piety | JavaScript | jQuery | Converts element's content into <svg> |
| Plotly | JavaScript | d3.js, stack.gl | |
| uvCharts | JavaScript | d3.js | Developer-focused, rapid build + embed |
| Chartist | JavaScript | Responsive, accessibility plugin | |
| Chart.js | JavaScript | Built-in chart filtering |
more soon
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| geojson.io | Fast, simple map creation/editing of map data. Github integration! |
| Mapshaper | Browser-based geographic features simplification tool for Shapefile .shp, GeoJSON or TopoJSON files. |
| Dropchop.io | Browser-based spatial operations (uses Turf.js) |
| Turfjs.party | Browser-based spatial operations (also uses Turf.js) |
| Configurable Map Viewer | Community supported open source mapping framework. Works with the Esri JavaScript API, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online and more. |
| QGIS Tutorials | Excellent instructionals for using the open-source geospatial analysis tool. |