Resources

Course TextBooks:

D3 Tips and Tricks – Malcolm Maclean
Interactive Data Visualization – Scott Murray

Tutorials

https://github.com/curran/screencasts/tree/gh-pages/introToD3
D3 Garden
Intro to D3
http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3
http://zeroviscosity.com/d3-js-step-by-step/step-0-intro

 

Helpful Links

https://www.rtfmanual.io/
Chart -Do’s and Don’ts

http://www.jeromecukier.net/blog/2011/08/11/d3-scales-and-color/

Software Tools

Tableau Public
Raw

Data Sources

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/rdc/data
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset?portal_type=dataset&q=education

Blogs & People to Follow

FlowingData
Also see the site’s list of blogs worth following.
Reddit Data Is Beautiful
Visualising Data
eagereyes
Data Pointed
feltron
information aesthetics
Information is Beautiful
I ❤ ❤ Charts
Michael Sandberg’s Data Visualization Blog
blprnt.blg (Jer Thorp)
Chart Porn
The ProPublica Nerd Blog
ProPublica Data
DataVisualizationCH
30 Thought Leaders in Data Visulization
Washington Post Information Graphics
NPR Visuals Team
Cool Infographics
Maga Design Blog
Junk Charts
Francesco Franchi
WSJ Graphics
NYT Labs

Twitter accounts/lists

Nathan Yau
Randy Olsen
Jon Schwabish
Lisa Charlotte Rost
Cole Nussbaumer
Stefanie Posavec
Jan Willem Tulp
Giorgia Lupi
Robert Kosara
Andy Kirk
Mona Chalabi
Derek Watkins
Graham Roberts
Steve Duenes
Scott Byrne-Fraser
Ola Rosling
Nigel Holmes
Nicholas Felton
Martin Wattenberg
Kim Rees
Jeffrey Heer
Hannah Fairfield
Fernanda Viegas
Info=Beautiful
David McCandless
Ben Fry
Ben Shneiderman
Kevin Quealy
Mike Bostock
Amanda Cox
Alvaro Valino
Alberto Cairo
Aaron Koblin
Open Knowledge Intl
Open Data Institute
Chart Porn
The Upshot
Edward Tufte
Jer Thorp (blprnt)
Jonathan Harris
David Eads
Texas Tribune NewsApps
Quoctrung Bui
Nate Silver
Jeremy C.F. Lin
Armand Emamdjomeh
Kuang Keng Kuek Ser
Lily Mihalik
FiveThirtyEight
Tableau Public
Women in Dataviz
Data Journalism