Data Visualization - Winter 2018

Programmatic Tools

  1. Javascript D3JS - Data Driven Documents (✓ Class tutorial)
  2. Javascript D3JS augmentation
  3. Javascript Vega-lite - generates visualization with json specification
  4. Javascript Mapping
  5. Javascript Network Visualization
  6. Javascript Google Charts
  7. Javascript Heatmap.js
  8. Python Altair (✓ Class tutorial)
  9. Python Bokeh (✓ Class tutorial)
  10. Python NetworkX (✓ Class tutorial)
  11. Python Plot.ly
  12. Processing
  13. C++ VTK

Software applications

  1. Chrono Vis
  2. Cytoscape
  3. Gephi
  4. Paraview
  5. Tableau (✓ Class tutorial)
  6. VisIt (Use executable, do not compile. Download version 2.9.2 not 2.10) (✓ Class tutorial)

Color resources

  1. Color tools (websites)
  2. Color deficiency simulators (websites)
  3. Mobile apps

Additional Books

  • Javascript:
  • Visualization:
    • Information Visualization, Perception for Design - Colin Ware
    • Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte

Additional Readings

Websites

  1. Meta resource
  2. List of visualization tools
  3. Catalog of time series data visualization
  4. Name Voyager
  5. Visualization Timeline
  6. Ngram viewer
  7. A periodic table of visualization methods
  8. Junk Charts
  9. A Quick Illustrated History of Visualisation
  10. Responsive D3
  11. D3 Blocks
  12. Bad visualization archive
  13. The evolution of the web

Datasets (alphabetic listing)

  1. CAIDA datasets on ISP & networks
  2. 1001 Datasets and Data Repositories (Messy list of lists, but extensive)
  3. 100+ Interesting Datasets for Statistics (Pruned list with descriptions of each for humans!)
  4. KD Nuggets - several free datasets
  5. Koblenz Network Collection
  6. NOAA
  7. San Diego City data
  8. Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
  9. UCI Machine Learning Dataset Repository
  10. U.S. census data
  11. U.S. cities, counties & state open data
  12. U.S health data
  13. Yahoo News Feed dataset, version 1.0 (1.5TB)