Data Visualization Examples
Jeremy M. Mikecz
2019
Data Visualization Examples
- collections of examples
- Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art
- also see Cairo’s blog
- The blog of Nathan Yau, a pioneer in data visualization: Flowing Data
- The New York Times produces some of the best work in data journalism; to review their work you may:
- browse through the current (https://www.nytimes.com/), especially their “Upshot” section
- See their yearly review of their visual graphics: i.e. 2018, 2017
- Nathan Yau’s review of their work at Flowing Data
- NYT gallery on visually
- see anything from Katy Börner’s pioneering work visualizing the history of science:
- She has some poster examples on her website for good examples of how you can integrate data visualizatons with text on printer posters rather than simply posting online.
- check out any of her books such as Atlas of Knowledge (2014) and Atlas of Science (2010).
- more of her work and that of her colleagues can be seen here.
- a huge collection of data visualizations is available at visualising data
- also see visme
- Map collections
- for a great collection of historical thematic maps from the U.S. see Susan Schulten’s book Mapping the Nation
- for Latin America see Jordana Dym, Mapping Latin America.
- Qualitative Mapping
- Michael James Hermann and Margaret Wickens Pearce, They Would Not Take Me There: Peoples, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603 - 1616
- final chapters in Anne Knowles, et al. Geographies of the Holocaust (I will place a chapter on Blackboard)
- Quantitative Mapping
- Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (see also the book by Eltis & Richardson)
- Mapping Injustice & Oppression
- Monroe Work Today, Map of White Supremacy Violence
- Mapping Inequality
- Collections of Spatial History research (research that uses digital maps and other tools to analyze how history plays out across space as well as time)
- Stanford University’s Spatial History Project
- Stanford also has a variety of other digital humanities labs. Click here for more.
- Pre-digital data visualizations/
- Charles Minard’s infographics (especially his on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia)
- Florence Nightengale
- ask me for more examples…
- Some data visualization tools with gallerys of screenshot examples:
- d3.js