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, Research Data Analyst, for further assistance