Legend

[CN] Cole Nussbaumer - big thanks to Cole for recommending this resource

[FD] FlowingData

[MS] Mariam Shaikh - big thanks to Mariam for recommending this resource

Articles

• Scientific American: Words, Pictures, and the Visual Display of Information (1/12/11) [CN]
• A Brief History of Data Visualization (7/8/10) [CN]
• Economist Special Report: New Ways of Visualizing Data [CN]
• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint (NYT, 4/27/2010) [CN]

Blogs & Sites

• 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization [CN] : outdated list from 2009
• http://blog.instantcognition.com/
• danroam.com Back of the Napkin Blog [CN]
• By Data Be Driven [CN]
• Choosing an Appropriate Chart [CN]
• DataArt on BBC Backstage [CN]
• Dataspora [CN]
• Data Visualization (SVA) [CN]
• DSA Insights [MS]
• Fast Company [CN] see Infographic of the Day
• Fathom [CN]
• Flowing Data [CN] *Got membership, but not worth the $
• information aesthetics [CN] [MS]
• Information is Beautiful  [CN] *David McCandless’ blog
• http://blog.instantcognition.com/#ixzz2FcmzQJ5v
• Juice Analytics: Agile Analytics [MS]
• Junk Charts [MS]
• Just Plain Data Analysis [CN]
• Lena Groeger [CN] Author of Scientific American article above; *Subscribed in Google Reader
• Many Eyes [CN]
• Naked Insight [MS] *User Experience Blog*
• Occam's Razor [CN]
• Pictures of Numbers [MS]
• Simply Statistics [DA]
• Social Life of Information [MS]
• Storytelling with Data [CN] *Cole's blog!

• http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/2012/11/celebrating-almost-100-posts-with-10.html

• The Functional Art [CN]
• Visual Business Intelligence [MS]
• Visual Complexity [CN] [MS]
• Visual Periodic Table [CN]
• Well-formed data [MS]

Books

• Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology (2008)
• Stephen Few

• Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis (2009)
• Show Me The Numbers (2004)

• David McCandless, The Visual Miscellaneum Information is Beautiful (2010)
• Jenn O'Grady, The Information Design Handbook (2008) [CN]
• Garr Reynolds Presentation Zen (2008) Good for presentation info
• Edward Tufte

• Beautiful Evidence (2006)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2001) Good for graphs and quantitative info
• Visual Explanations (1997)
• Envisioning Information (1990) 

• Colin Ware,

• Information Visualization: Perception for Design (2004) Good for graphs and quantitative info
• Information Visualization: Perception for Design 2004 2nd Edition (Edition III will appear in early 2012)
• Visual Thinking for Design

Data Sources

• Government

• Census Bureau [FD]
• Data.gov: catalog for data supplied by government [FD]

• SAMHSA

• http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/SAMHDA/browse

Programming Languages

• R: http://www.r-project.org/

• http://tryr.codeschool.com/ great beginner resource, composed entirely of interactive tutorials and learning by doing

Tools

• Multivariate data: Tableau [CN] (http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/), SpotFire [CN], GGobi [CN], Protovis [CN]
• Temporal: TimeSearcher [CN], DataMontage [CN]
• Tree: Treemap [CN], SpaceTree [CN]
• Network: Circos [CN], NodeXL [CN], UCINET [CN]
• Motion: Gapminder Desktop [CN]
• Text: Wordle [CN]
• Other: Daytum [CN], Excel Chart Advisor [CN]
• Infographics: http://www.easel.ly/, http://infogr.am/; http://list.ly/list/sZ-infographics-tools

Trainings

• Edward Tufte 1-day class on data visualization [CN]
• Duarte Design's Slide:ology 1-day presentation class [CN]
• LearnIt! Excel training [CN]

Types of charts

• Choropleth (Map):

• Google’s GeoMap Chart:

• about - https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geomap;
• Code it yourself on the Visualization Playground
• help - http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1409802

Videos

• David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization TED Talk [CN]

• David McCandless - contributes a monthly big-think graphic to the Guardian's Data Blog, and makes viral graphics for his blog Information Is Beautiful.

• Hans Rosling TED Talk CN]
• Journalism in the Age of Data [CN]