Learning resources
Books, chart catalogs, podcasts, people and websites for learning data visualization, curated alongside the tools.
Books
- Design for Information by Isabel Meirelles.
- The Best American Infographics 2014 by Gareth Cook.
- The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson. Basic visualization theory.
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte.
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics by Dona M. Wong
- Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner.
- R in Action, Third Edition by Robert I. Kabacoff. A complete learning resource for R and tidyverse.
- Everyday Data Visualization by Desireé Abbott. A field guide for design techniques that will improve the charts, reports, and data dashboards you build every day.
- Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray. Available to read online. Focused on D3.
- Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design by Andy Kirk
Catalogs
- The Data Visualization Catalogue – A collection of data visualization methods, with pros and cons.
- Data Viz Project
- The R Graph Gallery
- From data to Viz
- Chartopedia
- Interactive Chart Chooser by Depict Data Studio
- Wikipedia
Podcasts
People to follow
Websites
- Ann K. Emery's blog
- Data Visualization Society – The Data Visualization Society is an organization dedicated to fostering community for data visualization professionals.
- eagereyes
- EvergreenData
- Global Data Tracker – Interactive country-statistics explorer with historical charts and globe views.
- FlowingData
- Information is Beautiful
- Junk Charts – Kaiser Fung takes apart why certain datavizes work/don't work
- Lisa Rost thinks and discusses about why we dataviz
- Makeover Monday blog - #MakeoverMonday on twitter
- Plottie – Open-access library of scientific plots for inspiration and AI visualization tool.
- The Open News blog - Open news has some good dataviz related articles from time to time
- The Planet Thinks – Real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits on a 3D globe
- The Pudding
- Truth & Beauty Operations
- University of Washington Interactive Data Lab Papers
- vis4.net – Random thoughts on visualization and data journalism by Gregor Aisch
- VivaMap – Interactive quality-of-life map of Swiss and Dutch municipalities, scored on an H3 hexagon grid.
- Marble Taxonomy Explorer – Interactive knowledge graph visualization of 1,590 learning topics using Cytoscape.js with force-directed, concentric, and BFS layouts. Source