Analyzing ESA conference abstracts using LDA topic modeling to identify scientific communities and trends through text-mining techniques.
A technical guide on using Julia to integrate data from Hadoop and Teradata Aster for visualization, demonstrating its role as a 'glue' language.
The author seeks a new name for the TYPO3-Analytics open-source project, as it has evolved beyond TYPO3-specific analytics.
Introducing mpld3's plugin framework for creating interactive matplotlib visualizations in the browser using D3.js.
Introducing mpld3, a tool that creates interactive D3.js visualizations from matplotlib plots for use in IPython notebooks.
A tutorial on creating customizable heat maps in R using the gplots and RColorBrewer packages for data visualization.
A tutorial on creating customizable heat maps in R using the gplots package, covering installation, data preparation, and plot customization.
A technical tutorial on formatting ggplot2 plots for scientific publication, including design adjustments and using Inkscape for final edits.
A developer shares lessons from September, covering JavaScript data visualization libraries, Node.js, Bower, CSS frameworks, Jenkins CI, and Ruby gems.
Matplotlib 1.3 introduces a built-in plt.xkcd() function to easily create plots in the style of the popular XKCD webcomic.
A blog post demonstrating how to create a puzzling shape animation using Python's matplotlib and IPython notebook.
A tutorial on embedding matplotlib animations directly into IPython notebooks using HTML5 video encoding and custom display functions.
A PyCon/PyData attendee discusses the state of Python data visualization, comparing Matplotlib's strengths and limitations with newer tools like NodeBox OpenGL.
A tutorial on using R and the Google Analytics API to analyze and visualize '(not provided)' organic search data.
A tutorial video demonstrating how to overlay histograms with normal curves, density curves, and secondary data series in R.
A technical guide on using R's plot.new() function for creating custom multi-panel plots, comparing it to the traditional par(mfrow) method.
A guide to creating hand-drawn, XKCD-style plots in Matplotlib using custom code before the feature was officially added.
A tutorial introducing the ggplot2 package in R for creating data visualizations, comparing it with base R graphics.
A tutorial on creating an animated optical illusion using Python's Matplotlib library, including code and explanations.
A tribute to John Hunter, creator of the matplotlib Python library, reflecting on his impact on scientific computing and open source.
