Vizzuality launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB this week, promising an easy and customizable way for users to display their geospatial data. CartoDB is being promoted as a more “flexible ...

The two initiatives have distinct focuses but are worth highlighting together, since both are user-friendly tools that demonstrate the increasingly accessible ways in which data is being made ...

GeoFRED is a data-mapping tool that displays color-coded data on the state, MSA (metro areas) and county levels. For example, GeoFRED can display unemployment, labor force and population for all U.S.