This is a collection of awesome things (preferably open source) to make your journalism better. Please add anything you think everyone should know about.

• open an issue with a link; or
• fork the repo, add something, send a pull request

• ChartBuilder - Chartbuilder is a front-end charting application that facilitates easy creation of simple beautiful charts.
• Datawrapper - Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes.
• Raw - Tool to create interactive graphics from tabular data
• charted - Create charts from CSVs or spreadsheet links
• timeline.js - Creates timelines that are easy and intuitive to use

• Open Refine - Tool for working with messy data (cleaing, transforming, filtering, etc.).
• Mr. DataConverter - Converts Excel data into a web-friendly formats (HTML, JSON and XML).
• csvkit - Suite of command line tools for converting to and working with CSV files.
• agate - Python data analysis library, an alternative to numpy or pandas.
• proof - Python library for creating repeatable data pipelines.
• jq - A lightweight and flexible JSON processor (slice, filter, map and transform data).
• konklone - Simple JSON to CSV converter

• DocumentCloud - DocumentCloud is a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.

• Pinpoint and Pinpoint Editor - Web app for quickly creating and editing Pinpoint maps
• Mapshaper - Tool to simplify and convert Geojson, Topojson and shapefiles.
• Mapbox Studio - Tool to create custom map styles.
• geojson.io - Web based tool to create and manipulate geo-files(geojson, topojson, kml, shp, etc).
• mapstarter - Web based tool to create interactive maps based on d3.js.
• ogr2ogr web client - Converts several types of geo formats to Geojson.
• cartodb - Tool to create interactive maps.
• storymap.js - Tool to help you tell stories on the web with interactive maps.
• Odyssey - Tool to create interactive map based stories.
• dropchop - Browser-based GIS powered by Mapbox.js and Turf.js

• Meme - Meme is a generator that Vox Media uses to create social sharing images. See working version at http://www.sbnation.com/a/meme.
• CardKit - CardKit is flexible, SVG image / card creation tool, with simple configuration options, which is easy to extend.
• Quotable - Quotable is an app that lets you make sharable images out of quotations.

• Awesome Science Writing - Resources for science writers