Table of Contents

Basic Settings
Good examples
Plots
Schools
Books
Blogs/References
Data to play with

Basic Settings

Inkscape: free tool for figures. advanced users may use illustrator.
adobe color CC: color palette
the noun project: icons
javascript
fonts

Good examples

US state maps and interactions: metrocosm
Story
viz_examples

Plots

Highcharts: easily implementable tool
RAW: tools to make a vector graphic; built on D3.JS
d3: low level; high degree of freedom
datawrapper: easy tool for chart; does not work with large data
visualisation catalogue: the data visualisation catalogue; details are missed but provide a list of available frames.
Datavisual: charting tool
Tableau: software + app; can be costly.
Mobile patent sue: details

Infographic:
- Visage: on demand service
- Infogram: tool for graphic

Schools

Methis: Data Science Bootcamps

Books

data points: by Nathan Yau
Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
The visual display of quantitative information by Edward R. Tufte
Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen
The best practice
- The best American Inforgraphics 2013 by Gareth Cook
- Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a new visual language (Gestalten)
- Understanding the World by Sandra Rengren
- Around the World –The Atlas for today (Gestalten)
- Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless

Blogs/References

flowingdata
Information is Beautiful Awards: excellent examples of visualization
visualizing.org: interesting examples.
Fast co. design: blog?
Columbia Journalism datapoints: blog on interesting Data visualization
Visualoop: examples; mainly maps.
http://visual.ly/Visually: example and on-demand with payment.
agency: running the Guardian Masterclass
behance: design inspiration
WTF visualization: bad examples
Other News/Magazines
- the Guardian
- NYT the upshot

Data to play with