LibGuides: Social Sciences Data: ICPSR and More: Data Visualisation

Books on Data Visualisation

Visualize this : the FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics by Nathan Yau
Call Number: QA276.3 .Y18 2011
ISBN: 9780470944882
Publication Date: 2011
Link goes to an ebook...

The works of Dr. Edward Tufte (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Beautiful Evidence, and more)...

Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts by Eds. Julie Steele and Noah P N Iliinsky
Call Number: TK7882.I6 B427 2010
ISBN: 9781449379865
Publication Date: 2010
Ordered 12/13/2011 but also available in Summit.

Tableau
Tutorials
NOTE: students enrolled in institutions of higher education can get a free one-year license - look here
Many Eyes
Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software
UCINET
Google Fusion Tables
Here's an online tutorial from Google
Spreadsheet Charts (MS Office, Google Spreadsheets, etc.)
Data visualisation DIY: our top tools | News | guardian.co.uk (3/28/2012)
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis - Computerworld 4/20/2011
cart: home page
"This page contains computer software and documentation for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms"..." (see http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ for example)
PaperMachines
Use this Zotero add-on to generate visualizations and connections with the bibliogrpahic data and searchable PDFs in your Zotero library (uses MALLET)