From Resources

Resources: InfoVis

Blogs I Read

• FlowingData - Nathan Yau, Stanford
  • Nathan's list of blogs to follow
• eagereyes - Robert Kosara, UNC-Charlotte
• Visualizing Data - Andy Kirk
• Fell in Love with Data - Enrico Bertini, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
  • Data Stories - Enrico's podcast
• Junk Charts
• Information Is Beautiful - David McCandless
• Visual Business Intelligence, Steven Few
• NY Times Graphics Folks - Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy

Data Sources

• Research Quality Datasets, posted by Hilary Mason @ bitly
• Vehicles involved in fatal crashes - flowingdata post, data file, data file guide (pdf)
• Hollywood Budgets - informationisbeautiful post, "Challenge of the Stars", data, submissions
• CDC Birth Vital Statistics - Google Research post
• Rising Health Care Costs - challenge from California Healthcare Foundation
• World Economic Recovery - list of datasets, from The Guardian's visualization competition
• VAST Challenge 2012
• CNN Transcripts 2000-2012
• Public Safety Data @ http://data.gov
• Public Data Sets at Amazon Web Services

Cool Things

• Visual.ly Create - infographics tool
• Spot - interactive Twitter visualization
• DataWrapper - Open Source Data Visualization (German)
• Miso Project - "open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content"
  • Dataset - JavaScript client-side data transformation and management library
• Samples of many popular visualization libraries

Tutorials, Techniques, Commentary

R

• http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/Getting Started with Charts in R, Nathan Yau

D3

• Hello World with D3, Jerome Cukier
• D3.js Tutorial

Misc

• Graphs Beyond the Hairball, Robert Kosara (eagereyes.org)
• WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment)
• A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations, Heer and Shneiderman, ACM Queue, Feb 2012.
• How to create a visualization, by Pete Warden, O'Reilly Radar, Feb 2012
• Data Journalism Handbook
• How to Visualize and Compare Distributions, Nathan Yau
• Treemaps in Tableau, Jerome Cukier

Series

• Enrico Bertini, Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit (part 1, part 2)
• Andy Kirk, The Essential Collection of Visualisation Resources (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9)

NY Times Corner

• NY Times Graphics Dept blogs and twitter feeds
• 10 Things You Can Learn from the NY Times Data Visualizations, Andy Kirk, Apr 3, 2012
• Collection of Graphics for the 2012 Olympics, August 6, 2012
• The Facebook Offering: How It Compares, May 17, 2012 - bubbles
• How Different Groups Voted in Republican Primaries, Mar 7, 2012 - exit poll dancing boxes
• Who Voted for Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, Mar 7, 2012 - interactive triangular scatterplot
• Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal, Feb 15, 2012
• The Geography of Government Benefits, Feb 11, 2012 - interactive, animated choropleth map
• The Top 1 Percent, Jan 15, 2012
• What 1 Percent Are You?, Jan 14, 2012
• Guantánamo Detainees, Apr 24, 2011 - Best in Show in the print category at Malofiej 20
• Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller?, May 18, 2010 - interactive scatterplot

Books

Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process, Andy Kirk