This document provides examples and resources for creating compelling data visualizations and summaries. It lists various static charts, infographics, purpose-built visualizations used by organizations like the Gates Foundation and New York Times. It also identifies large datasets and tools for visualizing and exploring data, including ManyEyes, Tableau Public, and Google Fusion Tables. Sources of raw data are provided across domains like healthcare, education and government.

2. Use of Static Charts

3. Gates Foundation Annual Letter: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/2011/Pages/home.aspx

4. Boston Indicator Project: Example: http://www.bostonindicators.org/Indicators2008/Education/Indicator.aspx?id=11054

5. Infographics

6. True size of Africa: http://www.good.is/post/what-is-the-true-size-of-africa/

7. 50 Years of Space Exploration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/o/

8. Incarceration in America: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1102/incarcerate/flat.html

9. Death and Taxes: http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

10. Size of Starbucks new Trenta: http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/web0118-starbuckstrenta.jpg

11. Good Infographics Page: http://www.good.is/infographics

12. David McCandless: http://www.davidmccandless.com/

13. Purpose Built Visualizations

14. WSJ What They Know: http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk/

15. Education National Scorecard: http://nbcscorecard.greatschools.org/

16. 2012 Budget: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-budget/index.html

17. Weight of the World: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/weight-of-the-world-bmi/

18. Large Data Sets

19. Kidsdata.org: http://kidsdata.org

20. Kidscount: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/

21. American Fact Finder: http://factfinder2.census.gov/

22. WorldBank: http://data.worldbank.org/

23. Find Inspiration

24. Flowing Data: http://flowingdata.com/

25. Visualizing.org: http://www.visualizing.org/

26. Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

27. The Guardian DataBlog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog

28. Journalism in the Age of Data: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/

30. Openlayers: http://openlayers.org/