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Other Links

This page gives a collection of links to other data visualization resources I have found useful. It is currently under revision, deleting dead links and adding more modern ones.

Related Sources

• Our Milestones Project gives a comprehensive illustrated history of significant developments in data visualization.
• My course, Psychology of Data Visualization has extensive lecture notes and resources on data visualization, history, graphical perception and producing graphs in R.
• Andrew Gelman runs a blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science containing, among other topics useful and important discussions on data visualization.
• Martin Theus has a Statistical Graphics and More Blog with a number of examples of The Good & the Bad, graphs that could be improved by re-thinking and re-design.
• Kaiser Fung's JunkCharts blog has active discussion of a wide variety of junk charts. Many interesting examples for presentation graphics.
• Seeing Data: A series of research projects about understanding visualizations.
• Info We Trust: Detailed explorations of visualizations by RJ Andrews, including a beautiful visual history of the field.
• FlowingData: Blog by Nathan Yau.
• Information is Beautiful: Blog by David McCandless.
• Data Visualization Checklist: A helpful set of criteria for judging the effectiveness of a graphic.
• Stephen Few's, Perceptual Edge, contains a collection of articles on intelligent design of graphs and tables, with nice examples of good and bad design.
• The R Graph Gallery contains a wonderfull variety of statistical graphics, some quite innovative, created with R software (together with the R code that produces them). A great resource.
• The Golden Age of Graphics page (in Dutch) by Wim Neeleman and Heleen Verhage reviews some of the significant developments listed here as Historical Milestones.
• ScienceGL provides 3D+ software for scientific visualization. Their Gallery page contains many examples and applications.
• 1100+ examples of information visualization from InfoVis.info uses many of our examples and those from other sources.

See also:

• The ASA Statistical Graphics Section's Video Library   Each of 30+ videos has its own web page, with one or more frames captured as gifs.
• Marc Green's Toward a Perceptual Science of Multidimensional Data Visualization: Bertin and Beyond, re-interprets Bertin's Image Theory in the context of modern psychological perception.
• Tufte Stufte:
  • Edward Tufte's web site
  • Summary of Edward Tufte's Visualization Course;

Color

• The Data Visualization Gallery Color Picker Page. Some examples of good and bad designs for Color Pickers.