Data Visualization

This is a list of references and tools I indexed after completing the fabulous Data Visualization course by Albert Cairo.

Data Cleaning

• Data Wrangler
• Allow you to tidy your data into columns, which is easier to display
• Alternatives: Trifacta or Open Refine

Create Static Charts

• Flourish
• Inzight
• RAWgraph
• Save as PDF
• Open in Illustrator, it can change the vector's design
• Save as html (ai2html)

Create Interactive Charts

• Tributary: Real time IDE for D3
• Functions in D3

Charts

• Data Viz Catalogue
• Summary of Charts
• Full list of Charts
• Interactive Data to Viz

Datasets

• World Bank (extensive)
• Gapminder (cleaned)

Visual Encodings

Encodings

• Albert Cairo
• Properties and Best Uses
• Accuracy

Color

• Color Brewer 2
• Chroma.js
• Color Picker
• Color Adobe
• I want Hue
• Use natural colors in a wide range of hue and brightness (gradient)
• Use colors with a natural flow
• Use saturated colors if it is an element of high interest

Font

• Google Fonts
• Font Squirrel

Resources

• Books
• Redesign charts by Tableau