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Blogs I Read
- FlowingData - Nathan Yau, Stanford
- 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
- 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
- Google Public Data Explorer
- Real-Time Congress API
- HTTP Archive - stats about webpages over time
- Federal Reserve - FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), FRASER (Federal Reserve Archive)
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
- Getting Started with Charts in R, Nathan Yau
D3
- Hello World with D3, Jerome Cukier
- Selections in 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
- Guantanamo Detainees, Apr 24, 2011 - Best in Show in the print category at Malofiej 20
- Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller?, May 18, 2010 - interactive scatterplot
