Initially based on a list by Prof. Bahareh Heravi, with some additions from me. You can find an even larger list on SPJ Toolbox.
Collection
- Web Scraper - Browser plugin for scraping.
- Outwit Hub - Desktop app for scraping.
- Parsehub - Desktop app for scraping.
- Visualping - Monitor website changes.
- Tabula - Get data from PDFs.
- WebPlotDigitize - Digitise chart images.
- Map Digitizer - Digitise image maps.
- IFTTT - Automate tasks.
- NodeXL - Network analysis.
- Media Cloud - Media analysis.
- R / rvest - Programming language and scraping library.
- Python / BeautifulSoup - Programming language and scraping library.
- Selenium - Browser automation.
- curl converter - Convert curl commands to Python, JS, R and more.
- SelectorGadget - CSS selector helper.
- data.page - JSON to CSV converter.
- SVG Crowbar - Lift SVGs off webpages.
FOIA
- FOIA Wiki - FOIA resources with a US focus.
- Data Liberation Project - Released government datasets.
- WhatDoTheyKnow - FOIA tool and catalogue.
Wrangling
- Microsoft Excel - Desktop spreadsheet app.
- Google Sheets - Free web-based spreadsheet app.
- OpenRefine - Data cleaning and transformation.
- Parserator - Parse addresses and other unstructured text.
- Geocodio - Geocode US and Canadian addresses.
Analysis
- Microsoft Excel - Desktop spreadsheet app.
- Google Sheets - Free web-based spreadsheet app.
- R / rvest - Programming language and library ecosystem.
- Python / BeautifulSoup - Programming language and scraping library.
- SPSS - Statistical analysis software.
- PSPP - Statistical analysis software.
- Tableau - Paid data analysis and visualisation tool.
- QGIS - Desktop mapping software.
- CARTO - Web mapping software.
Visualisation
- Datawrapper - Web dataviz tool.
- Flourish - Web interactive/dataviz tool.
- RAW Graphs - Static chart maker.
- Infogram - Infographic creator.
- Datamatic.io - Web dataviz tool.
- Highcharts - Chart library for developers.
- Plotly - Chart library for developers.
- D3.js - Library for advanced dataviz.
- Mapbox - Mapping platform.
- Mapshaper - Editor for map data.
- geojson.io - Editor for map data.
- Gephi - Network visualisations.
- R / ggplot2 - Programming language and visualisation library.
Colours
- ColorBrewer - Safe colour palette collection.
- Chroma.js - Colour palette helper.
- Scientific Colour Maps - Colour-blind-safe and perceptually accurate palettes.