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Getting ready for my Data Science class (starting next week!) I am updating my data visualization library, looking for resources to help students learn about visualization.<\/p>\n

Last week I asked Twitter to help me find resources, especially new ones.\u00a0 Here’s the thread<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you to everyone who responded!<\/p>\n

I’ll try to summarize and organize the responses.\u00a0 I am mostly interested in books and web pages about visualization, rather than examples of it or tools for doing it.<\/p>\n

There are lots of good books; to impose some order, I put them in three categories: newer work, the usual suspects, and moldy oldies.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Newer books<\/h3>\n

The following are some newer books (or at least new to me).<\/p>\n

Fundamentals of Data Visualization<\/a>, by Claus O. Wilke (online preview of a book forthcoming from O’Reilly)<\/p>\n

Data Visualization: A practical introduction<\/a> Kieran Healy (free online draft)<\/p>\n

Data Visualization: Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics<\/a> Robert Grant<\/p>\n

Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design<\/a> by Andy Kirk<\/p>\n

Dear Data<\/a> by Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Established books<\/h3>\n

The following are more established books that appear\u00a0on most lists.<\/p>\n

The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization<\/a> by Alberto Cairo<\/p>\n

The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication<\/a> by Alberto Cairo<\/p>\n

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web<\/a>\u00a0by Scott Murray<\/p>\n

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals<\/a> by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic<\/p>\n

Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts<\/a> by Julie Steele<\/p>\n

Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships<\/a> by Noah Iliinsky, Julie Steele<\/p>\n

Visualization Analysis and Design<\/a>\u00a0by Tamara Munzner<\/p>\n

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics<\/a> by Nathan Yau<\/p>\n

Data Points: Visualization That Means Something<\/a> by Nathan Yau<\/p>\n

Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten<\/a> by Stephen Few<\/p>\n

Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis<\/a> by Stephen Few<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Older books<\/h3>\n

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/a> by Edward R. Tufte<\/p>\n

The Elements of Graphing Data<\/a> by William S. Cleveland<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Websites and blogs<\/h3>\n

Again, I mostly went for sites that are about<\/em> visualization, rather than examples of it.<\/p>\n

Junk Charts<\/a><\/p>\n

The Graphic Continuum<\/a><\/p>\n

information is beautiful<\/a><\/p>\n

From Data to Viz<\/a><\/p>\n

The Data Visualisation Catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n

Storytelling with Data<\/a><\/p>\n

FlowingData<\/a><\/p>\n

More references and resources from\u00a0MPA 635: DATA VISUALIZATION<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Videos and podcasts<\/h3>\n

The Art of Data Visualization<\/a> | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios<\/p>\n

\ufffc Data Stories<\/a>\u00a0A podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Python-specific\u00a0resources<\/h3>\n

Python Plotting for Exploratory Data Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

The Python Graph Gallery<\/a>\ufffc<\/p>\n

How to visualize data in Python<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\n\n

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