Visualising Data » Resources
Here is a collection of some of the most important, effective, useful and practical data visualisation tools. The content covers the many different resources used to create and publish visualisations, tools for working with colour, packages for handling data, places to obtain data, the most influential books and educational programmes and qualifications in visualisation itself. * Please note there are another 40-50 items to add to these collections but they are going to be saved for now and launched alongside the new version of this website around April * Data and visualisation tools Resources and learning references
The 36 best tools for data visualization
It's often said that data is the new world currency, and the web is the exchange bureau through which it's traded. As consumers, we're positively swimming in data; it's everywhere from labels on food packaging design to World Health Organisation reports. As a result, for the designer it's becoming increasingly difficult to present data in a way that stands out from the mass of competing data streams. Get Adobe Creative Cloud
InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices
Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media
Causation vs Correlation: Visualization, Statistics, and Intuition
Visualizations of correlation vs. causation and some common pitfalls and insights involving the statistics are explored in this case study involving stock price time series. By Alex Jones, Jan 2015. As someone who has a tendency to think in numbers, I love when success is quantifiable! So, I looked into how my working at Cameron relates to the company's stock price. Alongside this analysis, I'll demo scaling and data manipulation to illustrate basic lessons of visualization, statistics, and analysis.
Barnstable County Septic System Database: Posts
There are many ways to visualize data, from line charts to histograms and pie charts. Visualizing effluent sampling data for I/A systems is cumbersome in most of these formats, as the data sets are typically very large. Box-whisker diagrams present a nice solution by providing in a way that is compact and easy to analyse. What are Box-Whisker Diagrams?
Gallery · mbostock/d3 Wiki
Wiki ▸ Gallery Welcome to the D3 gallery! More examples are available for forking on Observable; see D3’s profile and the visualization collection. Please share your work on Observable, or tweet us a link! Visual Index Basic Charts
The 18 Best Infographics Of 2014
You could sift through piles of dense data sets in an attempt to understand the trends and discoveries that emerged in history, psychology, current events, and even fictional dragons in 2014. Or you could look at these infographics, which visualize otherwise overwhelming data as beautiful charts, graphs, and maps. Co.Design's Infographic of the Day series regularly showcases the best in data visualization, and this past year saw many stellar examples of the power of the well-designed visualization to illuminate information about nearly any subject, from the serious (the daily activities of Congress) to the frivolous (a visual compendium of the world's best dogs). We couldn't resist promoting Co.Design's own in-house data visualizations: the Great Wheel of Food Mashups and a map of each U.S. state's weirdest eating patterns (we're a bit food-fixated, apparently). Here, our favorite infographics from the past year. The Sleep Schedules Of 27 Of History's Greatest Minds
Types of Control Charts
Last year I wrote an Introduction to Control Charts (Run Charts). I referenced a favorite book of mine, Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, by Donald Wheeler of SPC Press, an expert in Statistical Process Control. This book is a quick read, and it’s a great introduction to control charts, written clearly using layman’s terms, with a number of very good examples to illustrate their use. In fact, in my last engineering job before becoming a full-time Excel jockey, I was frustrated by many operational features in the manufacturing facility where I worked.
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2014
It's always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it's a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there's a lot of good work out there. Nevertheless, I gave it a go.
