Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources?

Posted by thenomad on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.

So, I'm needing to do some data visualisation for an analytics program soon, and I want to rapidly get up to speed on the best practises for data visualisation in 2014.

What would you recommend as the best books, videos, ebooks, websites, etc to learn about data visualisation right now, particularly for less-technical users?

I speed-read, so feel free to suggest thick tomes if they're the best option :)

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by tjr on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:59AM (#7211707)

Edward Tufte's materials are well-regarded:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by thenomad on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:10PM (#7213427)

They look superb - thanks very much.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by venkasub on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @06:00AM (#7223653)

Other than the usual books, I dig the most recent innovations (on Twitter) by subscribing to these lists :

https://twitter.com/BrianBBrian/lists/data-visualization https://twitter.com/venkasub/lists/viz

Also, collated a list of libraries almost 3 years back: http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2010/12/data-visualization-char...

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by ScottWhigham on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:54AM (#7211666)

Might want to xpost over at http://datatau.com if you don't get what you hope to by posting here.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by thenomad on Monday February 10, 2014 @11:23AM (#7211849)

Very useful, thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by blueatlas on Monday February 10, 2014 @01:09PM (#7212576)

I've posted an informal list of visualization resources that I've been tracking. There are references to other visualization lists within the doc.

https://github.com/dbuonomo/visualization-resources

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by akg_67 on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:39PM (#7212344)

I will suggest checking out following resources:

Books

* Nathan Yau, Data Points Visualization that means something * Stephen Few, Information Dashboard Design The effective communication of data * OReilly, Visualizing Data

Software

* Tableau and example visualizations * D3.js and example visualizations

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Re:Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources? by thenomad on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:10PM (#7213431)

Will do, thanks!

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