This document provides resources for visualizing data, including books by Edward Tufte on data visualization. It lists other useful books on data visualization with Processing and visualizing data with Processing. The document also provides links to several tools and techniques for visualizing data, such as Many Eyes, Google Visualization API, FlowingData, Graphviz, and Processing. It includes examples for each of the tools.

1. Visualizing Data
Lisa Kurt, Emerging Technologies Librarian, University of Nevada, Reno
lkurt@unr.edu
February 15, 2012
Exploring Further!
Books by Edward Tufte
Beautiful Evidence
isbn: 978-0961392178
Envisioning Information
isbn: 978-0961392116
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
isbn: 978-0961392147
Visual Explanations
isbn: 978-0961392123
Other useful books and websites
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
By Casey Reas and Ben Fry
isbn: 978-0262182621
Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
By Ben Fry
isbn: 978-0596514556
Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
By Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky
Isbn: 978-1449379865
Links for Tools and Techniques
Many Eyes
Link: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/
Examples:
‘Yes We Can’ Visualized
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/barack-obama-yes-we-can-visualized
Whitest Name in America
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/and-the-whitest-name-in-america-is
Google Visualization Api
Link: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/interactive_charts.html
Examples:
Hans Rosling’s TED talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
Motion Chart
http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/google-motion-chart-api-visualization-population-trends/

2. FlowingData
Link: http://flowingdata.com/
Graphviz
Link: http://graphviz.org/
Examples:
Graphviz Gallery
http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php
ActionScript/Flash
Link: http://www.actionscript.org/
Examples:
BabyName Wizard
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#
Eigenfactor
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
Flare (Actionscript/Flash cont.)
Link: http://flare.prefuse.org/
Examples:
Flare Voyager
http://flare.prefuse.org/apps/job_voyager
Flare Dependency
http://flare.prefuse.org/apps/dependency_graph
Relation Browser
Link: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/relation-browser/
Map Equation
Link: http://www.mapequation.org/
Processing
Link: http://processing.org
Examples:
Web Pages as Graphs
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http://google.com
Ben Fry’s Deprocess
http://benfry.com/deprocess/
Visually
Link: http://visual.ly/
Indexed
Link: http://thisisindexed.com/
Visualising Data
Link: http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/resources/
Excellent XKCD Comic
Link: http://xkcd.com/688/