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Information Visualization

Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau

Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo

Noah Iliinsky

Noah Iliinsky

Mike Freeman

Mike Freeman

Andy Kirk

Andy Kirk

@visualisingdata

Supplementary Books:

Graphesis

Semiology of Graphics

How to Lie with Maps

Dear Data

Data Visualization with Python and Javascript

Unflattening

Also available online.

Reference Works & Handbooks

Information Graphics: A comprehensive illustrated reference (E-book and book) by Robert L. Harris
Call Number: E-book, click title to access USM POR Reference QA90 .H29 1999
ISBN: 9780195135329
Publication Date: 2000
Handbook of Data Visualization (E-book) by Chun-houh Chen (Editor); Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Editor); Antony Unwin (Editor)
Call Number: E-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9783540330370
Publication Date: 2007

Data Visualization Catalog
The Data Visualisation Catalogue is a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a library of different information visualisation types.

Selected Web Resources

Visualoop: Infographics & Data Visualizations
Interactive Information Visualization
Online book by Michael Freeman, MPH (Data Visualization Lecturer @ UW)
Flowing Data
Network visualization with R
R for Data Science
Online book by Garrett Grolemund & Hadley Wickham. CC-licensed. PDF version.

Blog Posts:

In Defense of Interactive Graphics

Journals

Journal of Visualization

Information Visualization

Computing and Visualization in Science

Financial Times' Visual Vocabulary

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