Resources.md

Resources

Useful tools and tutorials for learning data visualization.

Tools

Visualization Software and Systems

• Tableau Public - Free version of Tableau for publishing visualizations on the web
• Tableau for Students - Free license for students using the desktop version of Tableau
• Vega-Lite - declarative visualization using JSON specifications

Visualization Libraries and Toolkit

• D3.js - popular JavaScript visualization library
• Leafleat - a JavaScript library for interactive maps
• Mapbox - WebGL accelerated maps

Color Tools

• Color Brewer
• Flat UI Colors
• Adobe Color Palette Generator
• D3-scale-chromatic

JavaScript Frameworks

• Vue
• React

Tutorials

Here are some tutorials that could be helpful for completing the assignments and final project.

Github

• Github Tutorial
• Github Desktop

Web Basics

• Basic Concepts
• W3Schools HTML Tutorial
• W3Schools CSS Tutorial

JavaScript

• A re-introduction to JavaScript (Mozilla Developer Network)
• Eloquent JavasScript - free online book
• ES6 JavaScript Tutorial - ECMAScript 2015, JavaScript version standardized in 2015.
• D3-Observable-Walkthrough - tutorial for using D3 js
• D3 Book - book on princples of D3

Python

• Python Basics
  • Although python will not be used in this course for implementing your visualizations, you are free to use it for data preprocessing and processing.