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DATA VISUALISATION RESOURCES
Visual tools
Infogram
A tool for creating templated, visually appealing data visualisations and
infographics. Pro account needed to download full designs.
http://infogr.am
Canva
A quick and easy way to create slides that can be downloaded as images and
dropped into PowerPoint. Large library of free visual elements.
https://www.canva.com/
Piktochart
Online point-and-click tools for creating infographics. The Pro account gives
access to more templates, and removes the watermarks on images.
http://piktochart.com/
Easel.ly
Provides a set of infographic templates that can be quickly adapted by
changing text, colours and images.
http://www.easel.ly/
Prezi
A presentation and storytelling tool. Rather than a sequence of slides, it uses
a virtual canvas that users can zoom in and out of.
https://prezi.com
Flat Icon
A constantly updated bank of free icons for use in your presentations, reports
or other documents. These should always be attributed:
www.flaticon.com
The Noun Project
Another source of useful icons. Again, these should be attributed properly:
http://thenounproject.com/
Open Heat Map
This free tool allows you to create heat maps from a spreadsheet of data.
Watch the introductory video to see how it works.
http://www.openheatmap.com/
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Interactive tools
Datawrapper
A tool for creating interactive charts and graphs. The results can either be
captured as a screengrab, or embedded into a website using the HTML code
provided:
http://datawrapper.de
Google Charts
A set of HTML libraries for producing online charts:
https://developers.google.com/chart/
Timeline.js
This JavaScript framework provides a simple way to create online timelines
using a Google Spreadsheet for the data.
http://timeline.knightlab.com/
Chart.js
A JavaScript framework that allows you to create more complex online
interactives (requires some coding knowledge, and reading of the
documentation).
http://www.chartjs.org/
Dygraphs
A fast and flexible open source JavaScript charting library.
http://dygraphs.com/
Vis.js
A JavaScript library that’s designed to handle large amounts of dynamic data.
http://visjs.org/
D3.js
A powerful and popular JavaScript library for bringing data to life.
http://d3js.org/
Google Charts
A suite of free tools from Google, with instructions on how to use them:
https://developers.google.com/chart/
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Paid-for tools
Adobe tutorials
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign are the standard tools that would
be used by a designer to create static info graphics. Adobe has useful
tutorials and forums related to using their tools:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html
Visualforce
This is an add-on for Salesforce that allows you to pull data dynamically from
your databases and display it on a web page:
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Visualforce
Think-cell
An add-on for Microsoft Office that allows your to create more sophisticated
charts and data visualisations through Excel and Powerpoint.
http://www.think-cell.com/en/
Data visualisation examples
Five Thirty Eight
A data journalism startup from journalist and statistician Nate Silver:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/
Smashing Magazine
A website that offers resources and advice to web designers and developers:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Flowing data
The blog of Nathan Yau, author of the brilliant books Data Points and
Visualising Data:
http://flowingdata.com/
Ampp3d
A now-closed startup within the Mirror newspaper website that focused on
data journalism and visualisation with broad appeal, that people will share
online (you can still see their archived stories:
http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/
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DataViz: improving data visualisation for the public sector
This research was commissioned by the Department for Communities and
Local Government to better understand the potential for data visualisation
solutions.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dataviz-improving-data-
visualisation-for-the-public-sector
Improving Visualisation
On online resource with examples that links to the research above. A great
source of inspiration for new ways of visualising data.
http://www.improving-visualisation.org/
Guardian Datablog
The home of the Guardian’s own online data journalism:
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog
Online Journalism Blog
A fantastic blog and set of resources maintained by Paul Bradshaw, head of
the Online Journalism MA at Birmingham City University, and Visiting
Professor at City University’s School of Journalism in London
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/
Information is Beautiful
The website of David McCandless,a data journalist and information designer.
His blog showcases brilliant examples of beautiful data visualisations. He
hates pie charts:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Nathan Yau
This is an excellent author and blogger to check out, and he’s written two
great books on data visualisation:
http://flowingdata.com/
Data journalism handbook
A online guide for data journalists, that also includes invaluable information
for anyone who needs to find and interrogate data sources.
http://datajournalismhandbook.org/
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Interactive examples
Fossil fuel companies
An example created by Kiln for the Guardian using JavaScript.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/20/which-
fossil-fuel-companies-responsible-climate-change-interactive
US gun deaths
A stunning animation produced by Periscopic.
http://guns.periscopic.com/?year=2013
Wind map
A live interactive based on sensors across the United States.
http://hint.fm/wind/
Football season tickets
A fun and very simple interactive graph for football fans.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-
news/manchester-city-give-season-ticket-holders-6928993
YouGov Profiler
A free tool from YouGov that utilises date that they’ve already gathered.
https://yougov.co.uk/profileslite#/
Celebrities through history
An interactive produced by MIT showing famous people from various
countries at different points in history.
http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/treemap/country_exports/FI/all/-
4000/2010/H15/pantheon
