Practical articles and links on scientific data visualization
- Data visualization in sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 2014
- The data visualization continuum from The Visual Imperative 2016, Pages 177-200
- An economist's guide to data visualization. 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives
- One dataset visualized 25 ways.
- Seeing is believing: good graphic design principles for medical research. Statistics in Medicine.
- Ten guidelines for effective data visualization in scientific publications. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2011.
- Ten simple rules for better figures. 2014. PLOS. Computational Biology.
- Numbers, pictures, and politics: Teaching research methods through data visualizations. 2015. Journal of Political Science Education
- Practical rules for using color in charts 2008
- Choosing colours for data visualization
- A review of uncertainty in data visualization
- Hypothetical outcome plots
- 40 years of boxplots
- Exploring histograms
- How to read and use histograms in R
- Graphical inference for Infovix IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
- Computational information design see Chapters 1 and 2
- A brief history of mosaic display
- List of useful data viz books
- Data viz syllabus by Amelia McNamara 2015
Guides to R
Data visualization galleries
- DataViz project - which data viz fits your data?
- Eurostat
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
- Kaiser Family Foundation (e.g. visualizing health policy)
- Matplotlib
- National Center for Health Statistics NCHS
- OECD data visualizations
- US Census Data Visualization Gallery
- Visual complexity
- FiveThirtyEight
- The good, the bad, and the biased: Five ways visualizations can mislead (and how to fix them)
- Best and worst of data visualization
Data journalists and other dataviz professionals
- Gregor Aisch, The New York Times
- Alberto Cairo - University of Miami, Data Visualization Studio and weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism
- David Candless (Information is Beautiful)
- Guardian datablog
- John Grimade, Ohio University, School of Visual Communication.
- Hans Rosling TED talks
- Moritz Stefaner - freelance information visualiser
- Edward Tufte (books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
- Nathan Yau - flowing data
- Stamen Design
- Naomi Robbins - Forbes