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Looking for inspiration for your next project?
Here are some resources to help inspire you:
General data visualization
Topic | Link | Description |
General | Information is Beautiful | A blog by David McCandless featuring examples of interesting data visualizations. |
Sample Data | A resource with lots of sample datasetsyou can play around with, including links to repositories with even more datasets. Click "Sample Data" to navigate to the sub-page. | |
Types of Visualization | The Data Visualization Catalogue | A blog by Severino Ribecca that attempts to list every possible type of data visualization. |
Data Viz Project | A blog by Ferdio, an infographic design agency, that attempts to list every possible type of data visualization. |
Tool-specific
Topic | Link | Description |
R | FlowingData | A blog by Nathan Yau, a statistician who primarily uses R to create his data visualizations. He includes explanations of how he makes his visualizations as well as links to helpful tutorials. |
Tableau | Tableau Public's Viz-of-the-Day | A blog by Tableau that shares top visualizations created and shared on Tableau Public. |
Hand-Drawn | Dear Data | A famous project conducted by designers Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec in which they exchanged data visualizations about their lives, written on postcards. |
@Mona Chalabi | An illustrator who creates hand-drawn visualizations. |
Subject-specific
Topic | Link | Description |
Boston-based data viz | MIT's Senseable City Lab | A lab at MIT that creates data visualizations using data related to cities. |
The Pudding | A digital publication that uses data visualization to create "visual essays" that tell often humorous stories. | |
Fathom Information Design | A design group that creates data visualizations for clients. | |
News/Journalism | Graphic Detail | The Economist's blog sharing their visual work. |
FiveThirtyEight | A digital publication focusing on politics, economics, and sports, that frequently uses data visualization | |
@WSJGraphics | The Wall Street Journal's Twitter feed for their graphics team. | |
@nytGraphics | The New York Times' Twitter feed for their graphics team. | |
@postgraphics | The Washington Post's Twitter feed for their graphics team. | |
@BBGVisualData | Bloomberg's Twitter feed for their graphics team. | |
@BBCNewsGraphics | BBC News' Twitter feed for their graphics team. | |
Scientific | SA Visual | Scientific American's blog sharing their visual work. |
Questions about Data Visualization?
Please contact Kate Kryder, our data visualization specialist.