Useful and/or interesting links for
research/productivity/fun.
Tabby
Super customizable, cross-platform termial app.
Warp
Rust-based terminal with AI.
Expressions
App with (pretty) live preview of regular expressions.
DeckDeckGo
Interactive, web-based presentations. h/t
Browse AI
Rectangle
Window management based on Spectacle.
Camo
Use your phone as a webcam. h/t
Beeper
A single app to unite all your messaging apps. h/t
ggpomological
ggplot2
theme based upon the USDA’s
pomological watercolor collection.
disk.frame
R package that allows you to
treat on-disk data as though it were in-memory (i.e., use
data.table or tidyverse). Bonus
blog from Bruno Rodrigues.
ASCII Decorator
Sublime plugin for ASCII Decorations.
Machine learning flashcards
Flashcards for ML concepts.
lazyrmd
xaringanExtra
Extra skills
for the R package xaringan.
xaringanthemer
More themes
for xaringan.
voice dream apps
Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer
Data platform with accurate, up-to-date, high-resolution geospatial data depicting the extent freshwater ecosystems change over time.
Synergy
Control multiple computers with a
single keyboard/mouse.
Book: Dive into Deep Learning Online deep learning book.
Apache Arrow for R
R package for Apache
Arrow in-memory platform. h/t
Wizard Zines Collection
Programming zines. h/t
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Online book
with practical advice on
typography.
tweek
Online weekly
planner. h/t
Mail Merge for Thunderbird
A mail
merge extension for Thunderbird.
Compiled ESS point datasets
Compendium
of compiled Earth System Science point data sets.
Stack
Browser built for multi-tasking. h/t
codetime
Text-editor plugin for coding metrics
and timing. h/t
descript
Record and edit audio as a transcript. h/t
Hypothesis
Annotate the web—and share it. h/t
Online conference options
There’s more for
things bigger than Zoom:
Old Book Illustrations
A compendium of illustrations from “old
books”.
radian
An alternative console for R
with multiline editing and rich syntax highlight. h/t
learnr
R package to create Markdown-based, interactive
tutorials.
Convertio
File
conversion across 300+ formats.
Arcane Office
In-cloud,
private/secure/de-centralized, free office suite.
Crosstalk
Cross-widget
interactions in R.
panelView
R package for visualizing
treatment, missing-ness, and outcomes in panel data.
speaking.io
Public-speaking tips. h/t
Standard ebooks
Curated, high-quality, free ebooks.
cally
Find common
dates/locations for group events. h/t
Gantt.io
Easy, pretty, online Gantt charts. h/t
devhints
A collection of cheatseets, e.g., bash, regex and vim.
jQuery cheatsheet
Cheatseet for
jQuery.
blastula
Send beautiful HTML
emails from R.
Really Good Emails
Currated collection of beautiful, well-crafted emails.
h/t
tresorit
Secure cloud storage. h/t
In-Browser Markdown Editors
- HackMD - StackEdit - Madoko
Noted
Integrated audio-recording and note-taking
app.
Twizzy
Simple, clean flowchart tool.
h/t
Twizzy
Twitter
without the timeline (just message and tweet). h/t
rticle
LaTeX journal article templates for R
Markdown.
Makepad
(Online) project management for single users—no
team features.
Firefox Send
Send files up to 2.5GB (1GB without
signing in). h/t
TAYL
Turn text
articles into podcasts. h/t
Workbench
Code-free data sharing and analysis
platform.
Marvin
“Ultimate” productivity tool. h/t
Buttondown
Simple, online, markdown-based newsletter app.
Background Music
Audio utility
to automatically pause music and/or mute specific applications.
drake
R package for workflow management of
data-driven tasks.
fontawesome package
LaTeX package
to access Font Awesome icons.
NES.css
NES-style CSS Framework.
rayshader
R package for producing 2D and 3D
hillshaded maps of elevation matrices. h/t
iotools
R package for streaming
and data parsing.
pqR
A “pretty quick” version of
R. h/t
cloudyr
A collection of R packages that connect R to cloud resources.
fst
Fast
and easy serialization of data frames in R (and Julia).
RStudio Server Amazon Machine Images
Louis
Aslett provides a tremendous public service in hosting and updating (and
providing basic instructions for) RStudio/R machine images
for Amazon.
Spaceship Prompt
Minimalistic and
flexible Zsh prompt.
trminal
Quickly opens a Mac
Terminal (or iTerm 2) window for the current Finder directory. Akin
to Go2Shell but with more
frequent/recent updates.
ColorBox
Custom color-scale builder. h/t
latex2exp
R package that
converts LaTeX expressions to (annoying) plotmath.
Superhuman
Very fast email client (based on what they
say). h/t
What If
Tool
for inspecting machine-learning models.
GeoDa
Free, open-source geospatial software.
iTerm2 borderless
A nice
patch for iTerm2 that creates a more minimal aesthetic for iTerm2.
kitty
GPU-based terminal emulator.
Rbox
R package to run R in Atom.
RMarkdown presentation by Yihui Xie
A presentation
by Yihui Xie on bookdown, blogdown, and xaringan. There are many more presentations available by
Yihui Xie.
hey-pane
Atom extension for enlarging
the active panel (includes keyboard shortcut).
typing.io
Typing
practice for many programming languages.
DeclareDesign
Declaring and analyzing research
designs in the social sciences. h/t
R for Data Science
Online book about R for Data Science by
Garrett Grolemund and Haldey Wickham.
Biblatex Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for
Biblatex.
Writing tools for Atom
linter-write-good
lints English prose. Linter Just Say
No helps you avoid using hedge words.
Bib-it
Compendium
of BibTeX entry and field types.
Culture Concorde
Simple menu-bar curated-music player. h/t
Dotgrid
“Minimal vector drawing tool”.
h/t
UberConference
Great, feature-rich meeting
platform.
Figure it Out
Pretty Chrome extension (and
website) to figure out time
zones.
grasshopper
Free app that teaches coding.
txt.fyi
“This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.” h/t
Gradescope
Grading web service with really nice
grading/rubric setup.
ScreenFocus
Auto-dim (and auto-un-dim) when working with multiple
monitors. h/t
Clocker
OSX app to plan and organize through
timezones.
imdone
Atom package that provides a card- and
list-based user interface
for TODOs in your scripts.
themer
Generates color themes given a
set of colors.
binder
Turns a
GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. h/t
Gnotes
Simple markdown to Evernote. Somewhat like
Marxico.
gsynth
R package for generalized
synthetic control methods.
SuperLearner
R package for a prediction-model
ensembling method.
Beautiful AI
AI-powered presentations.
Academic Sequitur
A website that tracks over 90 major economics and
finance journals.
Teletype for Atom
An Atom package to collaborate in real
time.
AppleHealthAnalysis
An R package
to import and analyze data from the iOS Apple Health app.
regex-railroad-diagram package
A regular
expression railroad diagram view for regular expression under cursor
in Atom.
Things 3
Personal task manager. I’m
switching from OmniFocus.
Workflow
Automation tool for iOS.
hiri
Clean, powerful email/calendar/task/contact app.
XML Sitemaps
Simple tool for creating XML sitemaps
(along with other formats).
Viridis in QGIS
Viridis
color palettes (ramps) for QGIS.
LittleSnitch
View and
manage internet connections from your Mac. (Also: MicroSnitch)
SwiftText
Quick-access scratchpad for OSX.
ggthemr
Themes and palettes for
ggplot2.
Typely
Free online
proofreading.
Resistbot
A bot who finds and contacts your Congressional
representatives.
Text Mining with R
An introduction to (tidy) text mining in
R.
sf
Stellar package for spatial
data analysis in R. More sf resources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Cheat sheets for regular expressions
The folks
at RStudio provides cheat sheets for regular expressions and stringr (and
many other
cheat sheets).
Author
App to instantly create and publish documents to the
web.
ggforce
A package for
R that aims to extend ggplot2 for
explorative data visualization.
ggplot2 extensions
A helpful website that tracks
extensions to R’s ggplot2 package.
3Blue1Brown
A YouTube
channel that animates math.
GitFinder
A fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder
integration.
Drop
Beautiful color picker with Touch Bar
support.
Index
Save and
search your “stuff”.
Qbserve
Automatically tracks both productivity and work
hours. h/t
TripMode
Blocks apps from accessing the
internet. h/t
Tyke
Scratch paper
that lives in your menubar. h/t
Pod
A “connected”
calendar for iOS. h/t
Tabagotchi
Fun browser extension that incentives fewer
tabs.
Crime Data
The FBI has a great new crime data explorer.
The Open Data Census project has a handy(-ish) summary of
city-level crime datasets.
Plain Email
Four-action email-processing app.
Rambox
Cross-platform messaging and emailing app.
ScienceFair
Search, collect, read and analyze
scientific papers.
earth
A (beautiful) global
map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
Free, open-source machine learning, statistics, and
data-mining resources
A curated
list of resources from Joseph Misiti.
Template for R Markdown academic manuscript
Steven Miller offers a guide
and template for academic manuscripts in R Markdown.
Regular expressions in R
stringr’s
very helpful primer
on regular expressions in R.
Gifmock
Creates
high-quality GIFs.
twist
A calmer Slack alternative.
Hemingway
App that improves your writing.
rmapshaper
R package for “topologically-aware
multi-polygon simplification” (for shapefiles). Related: mapshaper.org
Manually re-index OSX Spotlight
A helpful guide.
Hint: It’s really just sudo mdutil -E /.
Colibri
A browser without tabs.
everydayCheck
A simple, pretty habit tracker. h/t
Orai
AI-powered feedback for your speeches. h/t
Velox
Fast
raster manipulation in R.
Tabulizer
Extract tables from
PDFs using R.
10 Minute Mail
Disposable email service.
Windscribe
VPN with a generous free
allowance.
SplitShow
Tool for dual-head
presentations on OSX.
Two apps from Matthew Palmer:
Rocket
Mind-blowing (Slack-style) emoji on your Mac.
Vanilla
Hides menu bar icons on
your Mac. h/t
Material Colors
A convenient website for accessing
the colors of the material design palette.
Astro
Email app(s) powered by AI. h/t
sip
Collects,
organizes, and shares colors (and palettes). h/t
rJava error
A very helpful guide
to fixing errors with rJava on OSX.
TextExpander
Expands custom keyboard
shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures.
kobra
Simple, real-time, code collaboration.
leaflet
Access Leaflet’s JavaScript
library inside of R.
pacman
An R
package for easy package management in R—loading, unloading,
etc.
Popular economics papers
Oxford University
Press provides a list of the
most popular economics papers from The Quarterly Journal of
Economics (QJE) and The Review of Economics Studies (REStud).
Unpaywall
Read
paywalled research papers for free.
VPN
In addition to having great names, CyberGhost and TunnelBear provide VPN services.
Both services offer free options.
LaTeX, meet ggplot2
Port images out out
of R and into LaTeX. h/t
Comparing text files
Diffchecker and Text Compare! offer in-browser
comparisons between text documents. In Atom, split-diff and compare-files offer
between-document comparisons.
asciicinema
asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a
free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and
sharing them on the web.
Markdown online
Dillinger, StackEdit, and Markdown Live Preview offer
three online Markdown editors/renderers. remark, Marp, swipe, and Deckset offer options for
rendering Markdown into presentation slides (also, Rmarkdown
with ioslides).
FocusList
A daily
planner and focus app based on Pomodoro. h/t
Giphy Capture
Create GIFs on your Mac.
Other options: Gifox, Recordit, and Gyazo.
pander
An R Pandoc writer—for
rendering R objects into Pandoc’s markdown.
Typora
A live and
minimal Markdown editor.
GGally
Extends R’s
ggplot2 with many helpful graphical functions.
LightTable
Open-source text editor with in-line code
evaluation.
Redkix
Reat-time email app.
Typeform
Clean, online forms.
Codr
A lightweight, collaborative pastebin (whiteboard) for
code.
SageMathCloud
Collaboratively use open source math
software/terminals in your browser.
SubEthaEdit (4)
Collaborative text
editing.
Mac Setup
Helpful guide for setting
up a Mac for most popular languages and programming/scripting tools.
Studies
Flash cards for iOS and OSX.
Noizio
White-noise
generating app for OSX.
WeTransfer
Sends files.
Due
Fast to-do
list app with reminders.
Exist
Track
everything you do in one place.
Tomatimer
A loose and straightforward pomodoro timer for
Atom.
Markdown Quick Look Plugin
Preview
Markdown files in OSX Finder (through the Preview app). From the
makers of the iPad Markdown text editor InkMark.
Read the Docs
Create, host, and browse
documentation.
Cloudinary
Image
and video management in the cloud.
Spark
A fast, personalizable email client.
PostImage
Free image hosting and upload.
Small Victories
Takes files in a Dropbox folder
and turns them into a
website.
TinyLetter
A free personal newsletter service.
Pandas Cheat Sheet
A cheat
sheet for data science with Python’s Pandas.
MapInSeconds.com
Quickly turns spreadsheets into maps. h/t
R Markdown Websites
A tutorial on building a
website using R Markdown (like this one). h/t The rmdformats package offers
additional themes (formats). More on R Markdown here. The bookdown package extends R Markdown to
publishing books. The blogdown package extends R
Markdown to publishing blogs (or general websites) using Hugo. The pkgdown package extends R
Markdown to creating static html documentation.
Divvy
Provides customized window management.
BetterTouchTool
Configure gestures for OSX.
Selector Gadget
Point-and-click CSS selectors. Helpful when used in
conjunction with R’s rvest
package.
Vivaldi
A highly
customizable browser.
GitKraken
A GUI Git client, for Windows, Mac and
Linux.
Calendly
Simple, beautiful scheduling.
Bear
A flexible writing app for crafting
notes and prose.
OLS Notes
Some nice notes
on ordinary least squares from Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford.
Shodan
Search
engine for internet of things (and other things).
Pomodoro Time and Tadam
Pomodoro Time and Tadam are simple Pomodoro timers.
Thenmap
A repository of historical borders.
Geocodio
(Reasonably) accurate, affordable, and
unrestricted online geocoding (forward/reverse
and batch/API). Connect with R through rgeocodio.
Canary Mail
A “simple, smart, swift” email client for Mac with many nice
features.
Github Pages and Jekyll tutorial
From UC
Berkeley’s The Hacker Within, a nice tutorial
on Github Pages and Jekyll.
pdftools
A fast and portable PDF
extractor for R (and others).
Producteev
Team-oriented productivity software.
Ghost Browser
A browser that lets you isolate cookie
jars into color coded tabs so you can run multiple sessions with
multiple accounts on the same web site.
Hocus Focus
Automatically hide inactive windows.
Noisli
In-browser white-noise generator with
productivity and relax settings.
Standard Resume
One resume that works everywhere.
Univariate Distribution Relationships
Interactive chart for relationships
between univariate distributions.
Opentest
Seamless screen, mic and camera recording for Chrome.
Habitica
Improve your habits by playing a game.
Linus screen
Screen
effectively allows signing on and off from interactive sessions on a
server/Linux shell.
QuickLookR
OSX-based QuickLook plugin for R’s
save() & saveRDS() files. h/t
Multi-File LaTeX projects
ShareLaTeX’s
guide to building LaTeX documents from multiple files.
SMS Email
Combine R’s sendmailR
with this list of SMS email
addresses to send text messages from R.
Stargazer Cheatsheet
A cheatsheet for R’s
stargazer package.
YakYak
Desktop chat client for Google
Hangouts.
Script
Run scripts in Atom based on
file name, a selection of code, or by line number.
Term2
Open Terminal tabs in Atom.
In the past, I’ve also used Terminal Plus.
SizeUp
Keyboard-centric window management.
h/t
munsell
Package in R for for Munsell’s color
theme.
ggalt
Extra coordinate systems,
geoms, statistical transformations, and scales for R’s
ggplot2 package.
ggthemes
Some extra geoms,
scales, and themes for R’s ggplot package package.
Boxy
A Gmail
Inbox client for Mac.
SurfEasy
Data protection.
Color Oracle
A color blindness simulator for Window,
Mac and Linux.
OSX option-key bindings
A
helpful superuser post about removing the character bindings for the
option (alt) key in OSX.
extrafont
R package to use other
(any?) fonts in R. h/t
R guides
Computerworld offers a beginner’s
guide to R, as well as an advanced
beginner’s guide to R. h/t
Grammerly
In-browswer and in-app grammar and spelling checker.
Markdown Here
In-browser Markdown formatting for
Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Thunderbird.
SAS Studio
Web
application for SAS that you access through your web browser.
ShiftIt
Manages and position
windows in OSX.
BarTender (2)
Organizes your menu bar
apps.
MailButler
Your personal assistant for
Apple Mail. h/t
Xi Editor
A modern editor with a
backend written in Rust. h/t
conda and OSX
Run
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/anaconda/bin if OSX cannot find the path
to conda.
Rodeo
A data science IDE for Python.
Micro
Terminal-based text editor. h/t
Min
A minimal web browser. h/t
tep
Tamagotchi-based motivating fitness tracker.
CodeFights
Practice coding in real-time races
against others.
Font Awesome
The iconic font and CSS
toolkit.
Karabiner
A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS
X.
Timer
A simple timer app
for OSX. h/t
ProtonMail
Secure email based in Switzerland.
Lightning
Provides API-based access to
reproducible web
visualizations.
DiagrammeR
Package to create graph diagrams
and flowcharts using R.
R Markdown Websites
Basics
from the R Markdown website. Blog on blogs
using Jekyll and R Markdown. Example
website
Pandas Resources
UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within
notes
on Python Pandas.
JuliaDT
An Eclipsed-based
IDE for Julia.
Rough Draft
A writing app that
offers the natural rough reminders of paper.
regular expressions 101
Live testing and help for regular
expressions.
Castle Adventure
Online
emulator for 1984’s DOS game Castle Adventure.
LaTeX Dendrogram
A simple dendrogram example for
LaTeX.
NYT Weather Charts
The New
York Times’s classic weather charts for more than 3000 cities.
pmax/pmin in R
Take max.
and min. with vector inputs in R.
Backpropogation Example
A step-by-step
example of backpropogation.
Billion Dollar Prices Project
MIT’s project to track prices via online
retailers.
markdown-toc
Generate a table of
contents for a Markdown file in Atom.
tablr
Edit CSVs using a table editor in Atom.
Julia Resources
A guid to help you learn Julia in Y
minutes. Slides on Julia
for R programmers.
Learn X in Y minutes
Guides for learning things
quickly.
.gitignore
StackOverflow explanation on how to
“[i]gnore
files that have already been committed to a Git repository.”
Pandoc
A universal document converter.
wmail
OSX App for Google Inbox and
Gmail.
Python Resources
Jean Mark Gawron’s book Python
for Social Sciences; O’Reilly’s book on how to think like a computer
scientist, Think
Python; a list of resources from Python at
Berkeley; slides teaching Python for
R Users.
Fira Code
Monospaced font with
programming ligatures.
White Noise & Co.
Frequency shaped colored
noise generator.
Flowstate
A writing app with strong
incentives to keep moving.
Katex
A fast math typesetting library
for the web.
Butterfly
A browser-based
terminal.
GitBook
A modern publishing toolchain.
Online LaTeX Editors
Papeeria, ShareLaTeX, Overleaf, and Authorea each offer online LaTeX
editing, compiling, and collaboration.
uiGradients
Simple and attractive color gradients.
.Last.value.
.Last.value displays the last value at
the command line in R.
Copied
Clipboard
manager for OSX and iOS.
Deckset
Slides from Markdown files.
LaTeX Boilerplates
Plain-text document production system.
Caret
A simple Markdown editor and previewer h/t.
Jango
Browser-based streaming radio—essentially Pandora but
with only one advertisement each day.
CleanMyMac
Clean up files on a Mac.
pryr
Another package from Hadley Wickham; this one
helps to pry back R’s layers. I’m using it for
mem_used() and object_size().
data.table and .SD
.SD
allows you easily choose many columns from a data.table in R. h/t (plus a more
transparent demo)
CodinGame
Learn/practice coding while playing
games.
LaunchBar (6)
LaunchBar
adds actions to OSX’s keyboard commands.
R style
More from Hadley Wickham: his R style guide from his book
Advanced R.
bigvis
Hadley Wickham strikes again: bigvis helps visualize large
(big) data sets.
Freeze
OSX app to access Amazon Glacier archives. h/t
Spectacle
Move and resize windows for
OSX.
xombrero
Minimalist, high-security
browser. h/t
Forecast.io API
JSON API for Dark
Sky/Forecast.io weather forecasts and history.
OpenStreetMap tools
Mapzen metro extracts
offer weekly OpenStreetMap extracts for major metro areas. overpass turbo allows you to query
the OSM API.
JuliaBox
Run Julia from the browser.
Mapzen
An open-source mapping lab.
Sublime Text 3 in terminal (OSX)
A stackoverflow
thread on how to create a symbolic link for Sublime Text in the OSX
terminal.
knitr::kable
kable is a function in R’s knittr
package that creates formatted tables (Markdown, LaTeX,
etc.) from data.frames within R. Seems like it would pair
perfectly with broom’s
tidy function.
Github Pages + Jekyll = Blog
A streamlined tutorial
on setting up a blog with Github Pages with Jekyll.
Prose
A clean editor for Github.
csvkit
A handy
suite of .csv operations for the terminal. Includes Excel-to-CSV
conversion. h/t
gimli
Convert markup files to pdf files.
Photo Gallery Options
thumbsup builds static
HTML galleries for local photos and videos. Expose generates static
sites for photoessays.
import.io
Turns
websites into data.
Sublime Text and File Browsing
FileBrowser
creates an extra panel for keyboard browsing files in Sublime Text; File
Navigator allows basic navigation and file management through a
Sublime terminal.
Speedfari
Browser
for iOS that blocks unnecessary parts of websites. h/t
OSX Terminal Themes
A set of terminal
themes for OSX.
StackEdit
A really nice in-browser Markdown editor that allows
for themes, hotkeys, simultaneous collaboration, and publishing straight
to blogs.
Scotch on Jekyll
A nice
tutorial on Jekyll (publishing blogs/websites).
oh my zsh
Framework for managing ZSH configuration.
Go2Shell
Creates a shortcut in OSX’s Finder to
open a Terminal window.
iTerm2
An alternative terminal for OSX.
regexr.com
Live
testing of regular expressions.
Colorout
Color your R output
in the terminal.
Git Large File Storage
An open source Git extension for
versioning large files.
R and AWS
Tutorials for running R
and RStudio
with Amazon’s web services.
Personal R Packages
A nice guide
to building your own R package.
Git Guide
A pretty simple guide to
Git.
Syncer
A fast file/disk syncer.
Classroom Resources
Some resources from CodeAcademy and
GitHub for the
classroom.
Dictater
Replacement for built-in Speech
services.
Git Large File Store
Open-source versioning
for large files.
Git Tutorials
“Git in
five minutes” (I think it took me a bit longer). And a very
clear description of how to add an existing project to GitHub using Git
in the command line.
Jaro Mail
Private, terminal-based email. h/t
Squire
An HTML5 rich text editor that works across
browsers and generations.
Etherpad
Online, collaborative text editing.
Madoko
A fast Markdown processor that makes
presentations, documents, html, etc. h/t
VoiceCode
Softward that promises to allow you to
code via spoke word.
Learning to git
Illustrated examples and a
(supposedly) 15-minute
game.
Spyfall
A popular party game; an independent
online version; an English rulebook.
Prism
Code highlighting via
JavaScript. Apparently, Prism is a spin-off of dabblet.
Email from R
The mail package in
R allows you to send an email(see the sendmail
function)—very helpful for letting you know when a task finishes
running.
Evernote in Sublime Text
Submit and edit notes
in Evernote from
Sublime Text (also allows for Markdown).
Pygments
Code
highlighting for many applications.
Arranger
Arranges application
windows (or Finder windows) for OSX.
Coda
A text
editor targeting web applications.
Codeanywhere
A code editor accessible in your
browser or on mobile devices. Features include ssh and multiple
cursors.
Symbolset
Sells sets of icons.
Noun Project
An app with a compendium of icons.
h/t to John Loeser
Thimble
An online code editor from Mozilla
(HTML, CSS, and JavaScript plus tutorials).
Next
A simple expense-tracking app.
Reading Lists
Bill Easterly’s development
economics reading list.
h/t
Sol Hsiang’s sustainable development reading
list. And Sol’s syllabus/reading
list for his summer workshop in the economics of climate change.
JavaScript in R
The R package
V8 allows you to access JavaScript functions from R. An
example
with parsing human names.
Languages for GFM
A handy list
of all the languages known to GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Drought Reports
EcoWest created a great interactive
map for US drought severity. h/t
Hosting Websites with Dropbox
Pancake.io offers help in hosting a
website via Dropbox (or git). So does DropPages.
Random Google Maps
Shaun Utter wrote some code
to grab a random Google Map and colors it. Pretty.
Scraping with R (+ Rasters)
Zev Ross shows how
to scrape using the R package rvest. Zev also has two
nice tutorials on working with rasters in R (1
and 2).
Tyme
A time-management app with a timer and a
project management system.
DaisyDisk
Beautiful OSX app for analyzing
memory allocation on your hard drive (and recovering space).
Email Clients for OSX
I just came across Kiwi—a
gmail-as-desktop-client app for Mac. I’m currently alternating
between Inbox in-browser and
Mailbox. I previously used Airmail and played with Unibox.
Hours
Another way to track your time. Only for iOS
at the moment.
Itsycal
A nice, little calendar for the OSX menu
bar—also keyboard friendly. h/t
R Packages for Open Science
A set of R packages for open
science.
Search R’s Documentation
An online search engine for R’s
documentation.
Time Sink
Time everything you do on
your computer. Could be scary.
Alternote
A pretty note-taking app for Evernote
(OSX).
Ello
An alternative social
network site. (Say the name aloud and think “British.”)
Motion in Social
Pretty cool research on motion…
and perhaps and even cooler portrayal.
MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide
Guide
for setting up metadata for Markdown. A lot of other stuff, too.
NUMI
A simple, beautiful, and versatile calculator for OSX. h/t
Tufte in R and CSS
People applying Tufte’s
principles in R and in CSS.
Cleaner Web Viewing
Evernote Clearly cleans up web
pages—particularly useful for blogs with lots of ads. Wikiwand cleans up Wikipedia pages
automatically.
Feedly
Magazine-style (news reader)[https://feedly.com].
Flashearth
View
Earth using many satellite options. A great time sink. Related: Earth
View from Google Chrome extension.
Marked 2
Very simple Markdown (or plain text)
viewer. Works with many editors.
Mendeley
Reference manager and PDF
organizer.
pyFuture?
galvanize offers a list
of tools for Python and data.
Skitch
Skitch takes nice screen
shots.
Sublime Text
My favorite
second-favorite text editor
(supports everything). Multiple cursors make life easier. I’ve since
moved to Atom.
Transmit
Terrific SFTP-FTP-S3 client for OSX.
To-Do Lists
I now use Todoist Swipes OmniFocus Things (3). In the past, I
played with Wunderlist and Swipes and Todoist and TeuxDeux and Any.Do.
Toggl
Track your
time.