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Dataviz Links and Resources
Tabula helps extract data from PDFs
Scraper is a Chrome extension for grabbing data off websites
OutWit Hub offers automated scraping of websites
DataThief lets you reverse engineer datapoints from a graph
Public datasets from:
Buzzfeed News / FiveThirtyEight / Amazon / Google / Caesar0301 / Socrata / Academia / More
Google Sheets is a good place to assemble and quickly look over your data
OpenRefine cleans up messy data.
DataProofer is a proofreader for data
Mr Data Converter converts Excel data into web-friendly formats
Mister Nester helps nest data
Flourish and Chartblocks let you quickly sketch out ideas
The Quartz Guide to Bad Data is an exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.
Duke University's taxonomy of visualisation types
Perceptual Edge's Graph Selection Matrix
Ann K Emery's Chart Choosing Tool
The Data Visualisation Catalogue
The Financial Times' Visual Vocabulary
WorldMapper's library of examples of good maps
Natural Earth offers free public domain map data
Khartis lets you create quick thematic maps
GPS Visualiser is a quick geocoder
Diva-GIS lets you download free geo data for any country in the world
Buttericks' Practical Typography (particularly the guide to system fonts)
I Want Hue - Generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors
Paletton - Create color combinations and palettes of colors that work together
0 to 255 - Find lighter and darker colors based on any color
Colorbrewer2 - A collection of good palettes for data visualisation
Colorgorical is another palette generator.
Distinct Colours - Procedurally generate a set of visually-distinguishable colours within a certain tolerance
Finding the right palettes for data visualisation
Perceptual Edge's Guide to Colour
Colour Oracle (Win/MacOS) and Spectrum (Chrome) simulate colour blindness.
TimelineJS lets you build easy-to-make, beautiful timelines.
Tik Tok is a Javascript tool to easily create beautiful, simple, mobile-friendly vertical timelines.
A great list of tips on making D3 charts responsive.