TCoffeeAndCode: Data Visualization – Components, Libraries, Tools and Services

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This blog post contains information, tools and links that I will discuss and demo during today’s TCoffeeAndCode webinar on Data Visualization.

 

What Inspired My Data Vizualization Journey – The Joy of Stats / GapMinder

“Our mission is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.”

Founded in Stockholm on 25 February 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling.

Hans gave his first TED talk, called, “The best statistics you’ve ever seen” in 2006.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/

https://www.gapminder.org/

https://www.gapminder.org/tools-offline/

Programming

Delphi

C++Builder

Python

Components and Libraries

FMX

Draw2d 3d

TeeChart – VCL and FMX

GigaSoft Pro Essentials – VCL – https://www.gigasoft.com/

FastReports FastCube

Python4Delphi (and C++Builder) – via visualization packages

https://github.com/pyscripter/python4delphi

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/python-for-delphi-developers-webinar/

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/using-python4delphi-with-cbuilder-vcl-applications/

Ray Konopka white paper and webinar replay

Seeing-is-Believing-Data-Visualization-in-Multi-Device-Apps Ray Konopka

White paper download and on-demand webinar replay

https://www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action/data-visualization

Python Visualization Libraries

https://mode.com/blog/python-data-visualization-libraries/

https://analyticsindiamag.com/top-5-python-libraries-for-data-visualization/

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/03/6-data-visualization-python-libraries/

Data visualization blogs to follow

https://informationisbeautiful.net/

https://flowingdata.com/

https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog

https://www.visualisingdata.com/

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/

https://pudding.cool/

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail

Interactive Things

https://www.interactivethings.com/

https://blog.interactivethings.com/

Other Tools and Services

GapMinder – https://www.gapminder.org/ and Gapminder Desktop

Google Public Data Explorer – https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Tableau – https://www.tableau.com/

Datawrapper – https://www.datawrapper.de/

MicroStrategy Analytics – https://www.microstrategy.com/en

Qlik Sense – https://www.qlik.com/us/

Oracle Analytics Cloud – https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/oracle-analytics-cloud.html

Microsoft Resilience – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resilience/

Sisense – https://www.sisense.com/

Grow – https://www.grow.com/

Conversionomics – https://conversionomics.com/

Qrvey – https://qrvey.com/

Zoho Analytics – https://www.zoho.com/analytics/

Domo – https://www.domo.com/

Sources of Data

The World Bank

https://www.worldbank.org/en/home

World Bank Open Data – https://data.worldbank.org/

World Bank Data Catalog – https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/

Kaggle.com – data sets for data scientists

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

US Census

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/

https://covid19.census.gov/

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-complete-count-committees.html

Data Gems – highlighted examples of census data

https://www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems.html

Jackson County, Oregon Profile

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0500000US41029

Ashland City, Oregon Profile

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US4103050

DATA GEMS: How to Use the COVID-19 Data Hub

https://www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems/2020/how-to-use-the-covid-19-data-hub.html

DATA GEMS: How to Visualize your Data Using Thematic Maps on data.census.gov

https://www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems/2021/how-to-visualize-your-data-using-thematic-maps-on-data-census-gov.html

DATA GEMS: How to Visualize Data for Your Area on data.census.gov

https://www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems/2019/visualize-data.html

More Inspirations

Information is Beautiful

https://informationisbeautiful.net/

https://informationisbeautiful.net/blog/

https://informationisbeautiful.net/data/

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/10-2013-the-winners

Why is Data Visualization Important? What is Important in Data Visualization?

https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/zok97i7p/release/3

See The 25 Most Beautiful Data Visualizations Of 2013

https://www.fastcompany.com/3022248/see-the-25-most-beautiful-data-visualizations-of-2013

Beautiful Visualizations

https://www.pinterest.com/ascii27/beautiful-visualizations/

Learn how to create beautiful and insightful charts with Python — the Quick, the Pretty, and the Awesome

https://towardsdatascience.com/plotting-with-python-c2561b8c0f1f

Tableau Public Gallery

https://public.tableau.com/en-us/gallery/?tab=featured&type=featured

https://public.tableau.com/en-us/gallery/?tab=viz-of-the-day&type=viz-of-the-day

Build your own Animated Data Visualization in Tableau in Just 5 Minutes

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/06/animated-data-visualization-tableau-5-minutes/

Additional Resources

Magnificent print visualizations

http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/05/magnificent-print-visualizations.html

Web App Masters: Steps to Beautiful Visualizations

https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1284

Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/tag/data-visualization/page/2/

Data Visualization Aurora.txt – A Bit of History The…

https://www.coursehero.com/file/58980014/Data-Visualization-Auroratxt/

Marvelous Maps

https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcwatch/marvelous-maps/

http://1millionhealthworkers.org/operations-room-map/day-life/

Books

Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts (Theory in Practice) Paperback – July 13, 2010

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Visualization-Looking-through-Practice/dp/1449379869

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2nd Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142/