Tools
Web-based tools
Software
Programming
Resources and Tutorials
Pick a chart
Choose the color
- colorbrewer2
- Color Oracle (color blindness simulator)
- Color and culture
Miscellaneous
- FlowingData
- Information is Beautiful
- Data Is Beautiful
- ProPublica Data Style Guide
- Data Journalism Tools
- Charting new territory: How The Economist designs charts for Instagram
Data
General
Survey
- Pew Research Center
- World Values Survey
- General Social Survey
- American National Election Studies
- National Health Interview Survey
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys
Country comparison
- Human Development Index
- EIU Democracy Index
- Our World in Data
- Programme for International Student Assessment
- Environmental Performance Index
- Global Innovation Index
- Nature Index
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
Bar chart
- Why video games aren’t causing America’s gun problem, in one chart
- Understanding Stacked Bar Charts: The Worst Or The Best?
- Why is blue the world’s favorite color?
- Most Popular Social Networks 2003 – 2019
- Where Are Young People Most Optimistic? In Poorer Nations.
- Diversity in Tech: Employee breakdown of key technology companies
- Experiences with the COVID-19 outbreak can vary for Americans of different ages
Proportional area chart
- How the crash in oil prices devastated Angola and Venezuela
- Behold! Every Ball (And One Sphere) of the Summer Games
- Sizing up Australia’s bushfires
- World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks
- Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults
Dot chart
- What’s Your Pay Gap?
- Pandemic’s Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccine Rollout
- The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Charts Show Why.
- Precinct Data Shows Rich, White Neighborhoods Flipping Democratic in 2016. Will It Last?
- See How Your Salary Compares
- Supreme Court justices are increasingly political
Line chart
- A Song of Our Warming Planet
- How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money
- A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?
- F.D.A. Seeks Restrictions on Teens’ Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes and a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
- It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record
- How Popular Is Baseball, Really?
Area chart
- The Fine Line In a Gray Area: When to Use Line vs Area Charts
- Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State
- Why Euthanasia Rates at Animal Shelters Have Plummeted
- The space race is dominated by new contenders
Scatterplot/Bubble chart
- Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
- Which is The Best Performing Marvel Movie?
- What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer
- The innovation game
- The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love
- Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree
- Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?
- How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get? Here Are 6 Key Factors
- We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster
Treemap
Pictogram
Heat map (grid)
- Warming stripes
- Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
- Revisiting the vaccine visualizations
- I made this blanket. It’s the daily high/low temperatures for Denver in 1992
Histogram
- Flag stories
- It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.
- The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America
- TV’s golden age is real
- Segregation in America
Alluvial diagram
Chloropleth map
- What are the hardest places to live in the U.S.?
- Estimated Total Annual Building Energy Consumption at the Block and Lot Level for NYC
- Roundup Ruled the Farm, Now Its Maker Has a Challenger
- Incarceration Trends
- Almost Everywhere, Fewer Children Are Dying
- It Can Already Take Weeks To Get An Abortion
Bubble map
Dot density map/Heat map
- The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
- Locals and Tourists
- Mapping segregation
- Race and ethnicity across the nation
- All of US: A dot density map of America
- An Atlas of American Gun Violence
- Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
- Mapping how railroads built America
- Here’s Where Australia’s Destructive Wildfires Are Burning
- Australia is Burning
Cartogram map
- Maps of the 2016 US presidential election results
- Try to impeach this? Challenge accepted!
- A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money
- World population cartogram
- States Where Insured Could Renew Plans Before Change by Obama
- A Really Small Slice of Americans Get to Decide Who Will Rule the Senate
- UK 2015 general election results in full
- Can You Answer These Sex Ed Questions? A Post-Roe Quiz
Flow map
- The Spread of Disease
- World Migration Map
- Migrations in motions
- 13,000 Missing Flights: The Global Consequences of the Coronavirus
Infographic
- What Spain has to lose from Catalan independence
- China’s influence in Europe — by the numbers
- One Year of the Russia-Ukraine War
- Where Does All the World’s Food Go?
- Common MythConceptions: World’s most contagious falsehoods
Chord diagram
Radar chart
- Why Songs of the Summer Sound the Same
- Kawhi Leonard Is The Most Well-Rounded Elite Shooter Since Larry Bird
- A Critique of Radar Charts
- The radar charts and its caveats
Difference chart
- A Field Guide to Red and Blue America
- Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950
- The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History
Animated visualization
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