Websites & Tools

Featured Link:

From the International Development Research Centre
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		10 Data Visualization Tips    Spanish version here					IDRC Visualization Review: By an Infographics Expert
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		Data Visualization: In Review					IDRC Visualizations: Redesigned

 

Websites: 

• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• David McCandles
• Epic Graphic
• Flowing Data
• Gapminder
• Information is Beautiful
• Juice Analytics
• Many Eyes
• Power of Data Visualization
• Presentation Design & Training - Duarte
• Visual.ly   
• VizThink

Designs / Dashboards: 

• Excel User Dashboards
• Chandoo Excel Dashboards
• Federal IT Dashboard    
• OECD Better Life Initiative (per Susan Kistler on AEA365)
• Tracking the Money
• USA Spending
• Visual Economics
• Visualizing

Infographics:

• easel.ly
• infogr.am

Charts: 

• Bubbl.us - Brainstorm and Mind Map Online
• Chart Porn
• Google Chart Wizard
• Juice Analytics - Chart Chooser
• Pie of Pie Charts and Other Pie Chart Tricks
• SmartDraw
• Sparklines
• Icon Array
• Change Bad Charts in Wikipedia

Fonts: 

• Identify Fonts
• Mixing Typefaces (pdf)
• New face of Typography (pdf)
• Thinking with Type 

Color: 

• How to Chose the Right Color Scheme
• Adobe Kuler
• TinEye Labs (search creative commons images by color)
• Design Seeds
• Pictaculous

Articles/Blogs: 

• Chart Makeovers
• Defining Dashboards
• EagerEyes
• Fell in Love with Data
• Imagine a Pie Chart Stomping on an Infographic Forever
• Information Aesthetics
• The Best Tools for Visualization

Videos: 

• Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen
• Vimeo channel: Data Visualization (per Joene VillaLobos AEA365)

• The Data Viz Quiz
• eyeo festival