Data Visualization - Winter 2021

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. Keyvis.org - Keyword search for Vis research papers
  2. Meta resource
  3. List of visualization tools
  4. Catalog of time series data visualization
  5. Name Voyager
  6. Visualization Timeline
  7. Ngram viewer
  8. A periodic table of visualization methods
  9. Junk Charts
  10. A Quick Illustrated History of Visualisation
  11. Responsive D3
  12. D3 Blocks
  13. Bad visualization archive
  14. 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) Original source - shutting down
  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)