I started to learn data visualization. I will post my findings along the way. Let's start with resources for learning. This is not an exhaustive list, I chose items based on my intuition I didn't have time to read them (I just started).
Books
The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
I like the idea of "grammar", I hope they analyzed what are building blocks of visualization. My secret dream is to create a declarative language for visualization because stitching D3 visualization manually is so tedious.
4 books by Edward Tufte
He is an alive legend of visualization. I want to read all 4 his books.
There is his lecture, so you can get a better picture of what he is talking about in his books.
Other
Those are books I chose for myself. It doesn't mean they are the best way to start this subject. A bigger list of the books is here.
Cheatsheets
- 🔥FT visual vocabulary
- 🔥datavizproject
- dataviz.tools
- Directory of visualizations
- flowingdata tutorials
- flowingdata guides
- datavizcatalogue
- depictdatastudio
- visualizationuniverse
Academic papers
Online courses
- Data Visualization for Storytelling and Discovery
- Calling bullshit
- Data Visualization at edX
- Reading and interpreting data at Khan Academy
Inspiration
- Awesome dataviz
- Awesome D3
- D3 gallery
- D3 discovery
- pudding
- visualcomplexity
- vis4
- lisacharlotterost
- @VisualizingOrg
- eagereyes
- biovisualize
- thefunctionalart
PS
Do you have more recommendations for me? What else I should look into?
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