13  Data Visualization (General)

On this page, you will find a list of general data visualization resources. First, there is a list of data visualization specialists and companies to follow. Additionally, there are practical introductions to data visualization, style guidelines, and books.

13.1 Data Visualization (Blogs)

A listing of data visualization specialists and companies to follow:

13.1.1 People

  1. Maarten Lambrechts
  2. Ada Homolova
  3. Lisa Charlotte Muth
  4. Zev Ross
  5. Edward Tufte
  6. CÉDRIC SCHERER
  7. Kieran Healy
  8. Little Miss Data
  9. Julie Peasley

13.1.2 Companies and Tools

  1. SPJ Toolbox
  2. Washington Post Tools
  3. Stamen
  4. StatSilk
  5. Infogram
  6. PiktoChart
  7. Genially
  8. Visual Data Storytellers
  9. Info We Trust
  10. Smart Things

13.2 Data Visualization (General)

13.2.1 Portfolios

  1. PerThirtySix
  2. Romer Creative
  3. The Plot Line

13.2.2 Selecting the appropriate chart types

  1. Visual Vocabulary
  2. The unspoken rules of visualisation
  3. What Are Data Visualization Style Guidelines?
  4. Data visualization
  5. Why scientists need to be better at data visualization
  6. Data Viz Project
  7. A Tufte Handout Example
  8. A periodic table of visualization methods
  9. Data Viz Design
  10. Dataviz guidelines: starting with why
  11. Flourish Best Practices
  12. Stephen Few Notes
  13. 11 Learnings From 11 Charts
  14. Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs

13.2.3 Selecting the appropriate colors

  1. Color in Data Vis
  2. Color Brewer
  3. Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualisation
  4. Who can use this color combination?

13.2.4 Data Viz Challenges

  1. Black in Data Vis Challenge
  2. VIZRISK CHALLENGE STEPS
  3. NMLM DataViz Challenge

13.2.5 Books

  1. A Reader on Data Visualization
  2. Data Visualization: A practical introduction