Envisioning Information

The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays

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Data Visualization Resources

It is a companion to the visualization services provided by Data and Visualization Services at Duke University Libraries.

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Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data

The book covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options, how to determine which one most appropriately fits specific data stories.

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Data Visualization: Design Considerations

Design Considerations while creating a data visualization. Use color, font, axes and scales meaningfully.

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Visual Literacy for Libraries: A Practical, Standards-Based Guide

The book provides librarians and instructors with the tools, strategies, and confidence to apply visual literacy in a library context.

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The Non-Designers: Design Book

The book offers practical design advice on the fundamentals of typography, more quizzes and exercises to train Designer Eye.

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Effective Data Visualization; 2nd Edition

The book shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate data findings.

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Data Visualization Basics

Communicative and Exploratory data visualization

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Accessibility

Since charts and graphs are images, these media provide serious accessibility issues to colorblind users and users of screen readers.

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Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal

Activities in this book teaches you to document the world through colors, lines, shapes, design, and data.

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Dear Data

Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists

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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Book explores the negative and positive influences that charts have on our perception of truth.

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The Data Visualization Sketchbook

The book comprises six complete sets of report templates to sketch in and plan your own reporting.

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Data to Viz

Leads you to the most appropriate graph for your data. It links to the code to build it and lists common caveats you should avoid.

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Graphs from “How Charts Lie”

All charts and graphs used in the Book "How Charts Lie" are freely available here.

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Interactive Chart Chooser

An interactive tool to choose the right chart for your data by Depict Data Studio

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What Is Data Visualization? Definition, Examples, And Learning Resources

The advantages and benefits of good data visualization

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Visualizations That Really Work

Know what message you’re trying to communicate before you get down in the weeds.

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WebAim Color Contrast Checker

Check to see if the colors you used in your chart meet accessibility standards.

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Colorbrewer

A diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes.

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Accessibility

Accessibility supports social inclusion for people with disabilities as well as others, such as older people ...

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Data Visualization (digital.gov)

Can you understand the overall trend of the graph? Can you quickly grasp the relationship between parts of the data?

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