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Ask HN: Best Data Visualisation Resources?

7 points by thenomad 13y ago

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 :)

ScottWhigham 13y ago
Might want to xpost over at http://datatau.com http://datatau.com if you don't get what you hope to by posting here.
- thenomad 13y ago
  Very useful, thanks!
tjr 13y ago
Edward Tufte's materials are well-regarded: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex
- thenomad 13y ago
  They look superb - thanks very much.
akg_67 13y ago
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
- thenomad 13y ago
  Will do, thanks!
blueatlas 13y ago
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 https://github.com/dbuonomo/visualization-resources
venkasub 13y ago
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/BrianBBrian/lists/data-visualization https://twitter.com/venkasub/lists/viz https://twitter.com/venkasub/lists/viz Also, collated a list of libraries almost 3 years back: http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2010/12/data-visualization-charts-and.html http://theuforce.blogspot.in/2010/12/data-visualization-char...