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We just open sourced "React Flow" : A library for rendering interactive node-based graphs with a smooth panning and zooming behaviour and…

We recently worked on a project with Zeit Online which is analyzing the frequency of words in the Bundestag's (the german parliament…

In cooperation with OECD , we recently published an open source charting library based on D3 called OECD Simple Charts . As the charts…

A Leaflet plugin for creating projection aware draggable polygons and polylines.

We built D3 Discovery, a helpful application that lets you explore a growing list of d3 utilities by providing a list of sorting and filtering functions.

How and why we moved from Disqus to schnack, a self-hostable Open Source commenting platform.

In this article we cover some useful tips and tricks about how to use npm.

We created a plugin that helps you to create customizable swoopy arrow annotations on top of Leaflet maps.

In this article you can find an overview about different React mapping libraries. A lot of our projects are about data visualizations and maps.

This article introduces 5 React UI libraries. You will see how to setup and integrate them for your purposes. We will share our impressions and show an example for each library.

In this post I will give you an overview of some CSS and UI frameworks. If you are building a rich admin dashboard, Bootstrap is totally fine, but for smaller projects you might not need all its features.

Neural networks provide the possibility to solve complicated non linear problems. They can be used in various areas such as signal classification, forecasting timeseries and pattern recognition.

In this post I have collected some techniques that I used recently when creating D3 Charts. These examples might help you to improve the readability and usability of your charts.

Creating a REST API is a common task in web development. I really like the ecosystem of Hapi, so today I want to show you how to do that using the Plugins Dogwater and Bedwetter.

QGIS is a great tool when you have to work with geospatial data, but when you only want to do one or two little tasks, like renaming or filtering some attributes then you might not need a heavy GUI based program.

In this post I will show you how to use different libraries so you can get a rough idea of how to work with them. These are only very simple examples. Please check out the docs to get to know more.

You can easily replace jQuery in your visualization projects by using D3-only functions. When creating visualizations or interactives we often use a combination of jQuery and D3.

In this post I will share some Leaflet features with you I wish I knew earlier. It should help you to use the full power of Leaflet and not only stick to the map related functions.

In this article we will give you a quick overview about open source javascript chart libraries (mostly D3 based). Just leave a comment if you miss one.