I have been meaning to write about Grafana for years. I started a half-dozen articles on it but ended up abandoning them because I couldn't get it to do a relatively simple task: making a graph from a ...

Computer chip designers, materials scientists, biologists and other scientists now have an unprecedented level of access to the world of nanoscale materials thanks to 3D visualization software that ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

Open source is where using free products doesn't mean you're the product!

These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and engineering prowess to turn that ...

You probably already have all the data, readily available, waiting to be viewed. The problem might be the tool to turn that data into maps, charts, graphs and tables. What software should you use? You ...

Data visualization is not just an art form but a crucial tool in the modern data analyst's arsenal, offering a compelling way to present, explore, and understand large datasets. In the context of ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) agency has announced RedEye, an open-source analytic tool for operators to visualize and report command and control (C2) activity. RedEye is ...

I just read Glyn Moody's post on the importance of open data and, increasingly, open source, in science. Good science requires good data--data available to any who want to replicate another's results ...

This section provides guidance on the selection and implementation of various technologies used to develop Open Data platforms, with a particular focus on Open Data catalogs, which are the web-based ...