visualization

Best practices

• Data Visualization Process [Laura Hughes]
• Takeaways for Effective Visualizations [Laura Hughes]
  

Data visualization in Tableau

• Training Videos: Free training videos on the basics
• Create Custom Color Palettes: How to create your own custom color palettes (sample .tps here)

Data visualization in Excel

• Stephanie Evergreen: Blog and instructions on visualization in Excel

• Bar Graphs in Excel [Tim Essam]
• Heatmaps in Excel [Tim Essam]

Inspiration

• The Upshot: New York Times’s data-informed analyses about politics, policy and everyday life
• Flowing Data: A compilation of interesting visualizations
• FiveThirtyEight: News site that uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories
• Source OpenNews: A behind-the-scenes look at how some of the most innovative data journalism stories are created
• Fell in Love with Data: Enrico Bertini’s blog about data visualization
• GeoCenter Pinterest Gallery: Visualizations that have caught our eye

Theory & Fundamentals

Books

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Talks, Courses, and Articles

• Visualization Analysis and Design talks: Tamara Munzner’s slides on the theory and research of visualization analysis and design
• Interactive Data Visualization talks: Lynn Cherny’s slides on interactive data visualization, especially applied to journalism
• Interactive Visualization Course: Lynn Cherny’s course on interactive visualization design
• Data Stories: Fantastic podcast that interviews some of the best data visualizers from around the world
• OpenVis Conf Videos: Recorded talks from OpenVis Conf, Bocoup’s annual conference for data visualization practitioners
• Why Prezi makes you dizzy: How cinematography influences how slides and visualizations should be ordered

Resources

Chart types

Visualization in R

• ggplot2
• Network graphs

Color

• ColorBrewer: Cynthia Brewer’s color palettes for sequential, diverging, and qualitative data. When in doubt, use Color Brewer.
• Adobe Color: Adobe site for creating color palettes
• Color palette analyzer: Evaluate color palettes based on how easy they are to name
• Color palette examples
• Matplotlib color schemes: Explanation of how Matplotlib, Python’s visualization function, created color schemes

Fonts and icons

• Typography: explanation of key terms about fonts and general good practices
• Humanitarian icons: UN-OCHA free icons for humanitarian symbols
• Free vector graphics

Other Visualization Resource Sites

• Data Visualization Resource List: Matt Brehmer’s comprehensive list of useful visualization resources
• Visualization tools: gallery of software and tools to create visualizations