Data Visualization: Design Sources

Easily Viewed

Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity, http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ .

This site is a resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. Lima is author of Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (2011), The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge  (2014), and The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge (2017).

Nathan Yau, FlowingData, http://flowingdata.com/ .

This site explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.

David McCandless, Information is Beautiful, https://informationisbeautiful.net/ .

This site is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world. All visualizations are based on facts & data: constantly updated, revised & revisioned.

Martin Watterman, Data Visualization: Art, Media, Science, http://www.bewitched.com/

This is the man who said, “Visualization is a gateway drug to statistics.” Watterman is a co-leader of Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group, part of the Google Brain team.

Edward Tufte’s tribute to  Megan Jaegerman. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002w4
Jaegerman worked at the New York Times from 1990 to 1998.

WTF Visualizations. http://viz.wtf/ . This site is full of visualizations that make no sense.

Requires More Digging
Robert Kosara, Eager Eyes. https://eagereyes.org/
Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data.

FiveThirtyEight, https://fivethirtyeight.com/ ,
Contains data visualizations of subjects in politics, culture, sports, science and health.

Jer Thorp, https://jerthorp.glitch.me/
Thorp is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times' first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world's foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.

Summaries

Heer, Jeffrey,  Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky. “A Tour through the Visualization Zoo:

A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.” Graphics 8, no. 5 (2010). https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128

Good summary of types of visualizations.

Visualization Universe, http://visualizationuniverse.com/
Contains Charts, Books, and Tools.

Excellent graphical depiction of chart typologies.