Megan’s Dataviz Resource List

Recently, I’ve been making a lot of data visualizations, posting them on my Twitter page, and engaging with the dataviz community there (#DataFam). I’ve picked up a lot of dataviz-related resources so far, and I wanted to start a categorized list of them here for my own future reference, as well as for others who are interested in dataviz. So without further ado: Welcome to Megan’s Dataviz Resource List!

Challenges

Weekly Challenges

• Makeover Monday

• Workout Wednesday

Monthly Challenges

• Diversity in Data

• Iron Quest

• Project Health Viz

• Sports Viz Sunday

• Storytelling with Data (SWD) Challenge

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Viz Project

• Viz for Social Good

• Viz2Educate

Yearly Challenges

• Iron Viz

* The base for this list of challenges came from Autumn’s Declassified Tableau Survival Guide, which can be found here.

Color & Colormap Resources

• Color blindness simulator - Upload your dataviz to see what it would look like for different types and severities of colorblindness.

• Data Viz Color Palette Generator - Choose your two endpoint colors and a number of shades, get back the hex codes of each of the visually equidistant colors!

• Colorpicker for Data - Similar to the previous bullet point, this tool lets you choose two endpoint colors and returns a range of shades between.

Python & Matplotlib Resources

• The Python Graph Gallery - Lots of different types of chart, each with the Python code to make them (using both matplotlib and Seaborn).

• Seaborn - A package for statistical data visualization in Python.

• Scientific Visualization - An open access book (a work in progress) on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib.

• Matplotlib Cheatsheet - A beautiful, multi-page cheatsheet for everything matplotlib.

Tableau Resources

• Autumn’s Declassified Tableau Survival Guide - A great compilation of resources related to Tableau!

• The Tableau Student Guide - All sorts of posts related to learning Tableau.

• The Tableau Chart Catalog - A meta-viz by Kevin Flerlage showing 100 different chart types in Tableau.

Connecting with the Community

• Mentoring Meetup - A way to find a mentor or a mentee in your Tableau journey.

• Dataviz Book Club - Read and discuss books about dataviz 3-4 times per year. This book club is run by Lisa Charlotte Rost, who works for Datawrapper.