I took Edward Tufte's course: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ That's interesting but most valuable is probably his books. I

I took Edward Tufte's course: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ That's interesting but most valuable is probably his books. I was planning to read Interactive Data Visualization for the Web http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/index.html http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/index.html I think that's mostly an introduction to the tool (D3) but maybe has some info on visualization itself. Also, this tutorial was an easy intro to D3: http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/ http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/ Hopefully, the author continues to add to it. Mike Bostock (author of D3) has some interesting blogs at: http://bost.ocks.org http://bost.ocks.org and also some great visualizations at http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock A PHD in my office recommended The Grammar Of Graphics http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Computing/dp/0387245448 http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Comput... It seems much more technical and statistical but could be an interesting set of ideas to synthesize. I'm planning on borrowing his copy. Mike Bostock's stuff also led me to this page on Hive Plots which is a pretty cool description of how to do network visualization better: http://www.hiveplot.com http://www.hiveplot.com And I like Flowing Data as a blog: http://flowingdata.com/ http://flowingdata.com/ This is all of course prior to actually having studied it. I'm hoping using these resources and playing with some toy projects will lead me down further paths. (Assuming I have time which I, of course, probably won't.)