Data and Information Visualization Resources
People to follow
- Stephen Few
- Edward Tufte
- Hans Rosling
- Martin Krzywinski
- Andy Kirk
- Gregor Aisch
- Moritz Stefaner
- Enrico Bertini
- Nathan Yau
- Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Jan Willem Tulp
- Manuel Lima
- Jorge Camoes
- Rolf Hichert
- Alberto Cairo
- David McCandless
- Robert Monfera
- Andre Petras
- Evelyn Münster
- Carlo Zapponi
- Peter Cook
Books
- Information Dashboard Design - Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, by Stephen Few
- Show Me the Numbers - Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, by Stephen Few
- Information Visualization - Perception for Design, by Colin Ware
- Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals, by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Book lists
Podcasts
Learning Material
- Interactive Data Vis Course, hosted on Github by @arnicas
- InfoVis Lecture Notes TU Graz, published by Keith Andrews
- BusinessPundit's Guide to Infographics, recommended by the young students from Lyndhurst STEM club for girls
Websites
- http://perceptualedge.com
- http://fellinlovewithdata.com/
- http://www.gapminder.org/ Hans Rosling
- http://flowingdata.com/, Nathan Yau
- http://well-formed-data.net/, Blog of Moritz Stefaner
- http://truth-and-beauty.net/, Moritz Stefaner
- http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
- http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/
- http://bigdata-madesimple.com/
- http://www.visualisingdata.com/
- http://datavizproject.com/, a collection of data visualization types (i.e. diagrams, charts, graphs etc.) by Ferdio
- http://www.accurat.it/
- http://raureif.net/
- http://evelynmuenster.com/
- http://www.makinguse.com/, nice dataviz projects of Carlo Zapponi, good inspiration
- http://de.statista.com/
Visualization Software and Vendors
- Tableau, rich data visualization suite, also useful for data exploration
- Raw, an open source tool to turn spreadsheet data into vector graphics, amongst other things useful for data exploration
- Geckoboard, SaaS to build KPI-Dashboards
- QlikView / QlikSense, data visualization products
- Grafana, open source graph and dashboard builder aimed at visualizing time series data
- Alteryx, claims to be a platform for self-service analytics
- Plo.ty
- Slemma
- Voyager
- Microstrategy
Visualization related software
- DataWrangler, research project with a good demonstration video, turned into Trifacta
- Trifacta Wrangler
- Alteryx, not only data preparation, but my impression is that they started out as a data preparation company
- elastic.io, cloud-based data intergration platform
- Paxata, yet another data prep solution named in a user comment alongside Alteryx and Trifacta
Conferences
- http://informationplusconference.com/, Vancouver / Canada
- https://openvisconf.com/, Boston / USA
- http://www.tapestryconference.com/