Useful Links

D3js.org: data-driven documents Javascript library
CartoDB: mapping for Researchers
LeafletJS: open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Open Street Map
AGIS Mapping Software
TimelineJS: Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy and intuitive to use
Bar Chart CodePen template
Tableau Public free tool for visualising data
OdysseyJS: Javascript library that allows you to combine maps, narratives, and other multimedia into a beautiful story
WebGL: a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins
RAW: useful tool for visualising simple spreadsheet data
@IsaKiko’s lesson plans: for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS, SVG, JSON, and JS (primarily D3.js)
D3js tutorial: tutorial created by Samara Neilson for SHW.
dimple.js: An object-oriented API for business analytics powered by d3)

Light Table: Code editor
CodePen: Front end developer playground and in-browser code editor.
Raphael: a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web.
Mining the Social Web
QGIS: is a cross-platform Open Source Geographic Information system
OpenRefine: a powerful tool for working with messy data.
Omeka: an open source web publishing platform for creating online exhibitions.
Omeka CSV plugin: allows users to import items from a simple CSV file, and then map the CSV column data to multiple elements, files, and/or tags.
Paperweight: a Python package for hacking LaTeX documents.
Kimono: web text scraper - lets you turn websites into APIs in seconds.
JavaScript.com: a resource built by the Code School team for the JavaScript community.

Digital Ocean: Simple cloud hosting - deploy an SSD cloud server in 55 seconds.
NecTAR Research Cloud: publish research data, share knowledge and rapidly deploy and access software applications
Launchpod by Intersect: allows you to easily run various software products in the NeCTAR research cloud
Introduction to relational databases with SQL: tutorial created by Dany Vohl for SHW
SQL Alchemy: A database toolkit for Python
MySQLdb: MySQL database connector for Python programming
ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

Astrobiased: by Eli Bressert, Astronomer turned Data Scientist
Musings in Amusing Data by Sudeep Das, Astrophysicist turned Data Scientist
WTF Visualisations: visualisations that make no sense
Fell in love with data: edited by Enrico Bertini, an Assistant Professor at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
Blog post: Linking Visualization and Understanding in Astronomy
Blog post: Python 3 in Science: the great migration has begun!

Project Examples (Brag Book)

Visualising the AAS Job Register - from .Astronomy6 conference (uses LeafletJS)
The Journal of Brief Ideas - from .Astronomy6 conference
CiteURL: A web app that returns a link to the web page of an article given a citation (uses Python, Flask & Heroku) -- by Antonio Bibiano
UTMOST telescope interactive timeline (uses TimelineJS & Google spreadsheet) -- by Arna Karick
PLATYPUS survey interactive timeline (uses TimelineJS & Google spreadsheet) -- by Elodie Thilliez
SHW Week 3 D3js tutorial (uses Github, poole & Jekyll) -- by Samara Neilson
Software Carpentry Resources (uses Github, poole and Jekyll & D3js, data is a .csv spreadsheet) -- by Arna Karick
Introduction to relational databases with SQL: SHW workshop website (uses GitHub & HTML5 UP) -- by Dany Vohl