Additional Resources

These are a collection of materials and resources from other sources that may be interesting or useful in your journey into the world of data and data visualization.

Tools & Resources

• Do No Harm in Data Visualization: A robust guide on best-practices for applying equity awareness into your data visualizations.

• Data Basic: Webpage with several user-friendly data tools and activities to get more familiar with data concepts.

• RAWGraphs: Web-based tool with advanced data visualization capabilities and several tutorials.

• The Chartmaker Directory: Shows the capabilities of many types of data visualization software such as what types of charts and data it can process.

• Netstory: Web tool to create interactive stories with text and still images.

• Open Source Zine Template: Short magazine, or "Zine", template for presenting data stories.

• The Common Knowledge Project: Tool for creating charts of demographic data.

Datasets

• Justice Counts State Data: Collection of state-level data on criminal justice.

• Hatebase: Repository of multi-lingual hate speech used to assist organizations in moderating such speech.

• DataSF: Repository of data from various San Francisco based organizations including the Department of Public Health, Recreation & Parks, and more.

• Census Bureau Data: Repository of all data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Visualizations

• Information is Beautiful: Website with examples of interactive data visualizations and ability to sign up for paid courses to learn data visualization skills.

• COVID-19 Behaviors Dashboard: Contains metrics on COVID-19 related behavior, such as vaccinations and mask wearing.

• Bruises - The Data We Don't See: Blog post describing making a custom data visualization based on a child's experience with an autoimmune disease.

• Whispers of the Mountain: Description of project to use ski-mounted sensors to collect and visualize position data on a mountain.

• Sonic Cities: Visualization of sound levels in public parks before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• History of Rock: Visualization of 100 songs representing the history of rock.

• Music Map: Visualization of the genealogy and history of popular music genres.

• Who we spend time with as we get older: Visualization of time spent with different people (e.g. parents, friends, coworkers) as we age.

• Yo te nombro - el mapa de los feminicidios en México: Geographic visualization of femicides in México.

Literature & Educational Materials

• Resources from the Visualizations for Impact & Equity Video 

  • Abascal L. et al. 2023. Barriers and Enablers to COVID‑19 Vaccination in San Francisco's Spanish‑Speaking Population

  • Bikomeye J. et al. 202. Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease-Related Outcomes Among Cancer Survivors in the United States: A Systematic Review of the Literature

• Resources from the Community Engagement with Data Visualization Video 

  • Creative Data Literacy: A Constructionist Approach to Teaching Information Visualization

  • Data Theatre as an Entry Point to Data Literacy

  • Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy

  • Advocating for Digital Equity A Facilitator Guide for Catalyzing Immigrant and Refugee Community Members

• Resources from the Building Out Geographies of Inclusion Video 

  • Tableau Modules Descriptions

  • Data Visualization Tools Info Sheet

  • Tableau Workbook with Pre-Loaded Data (note you will need to open this using Tableau)

• DAIR.AI: Free, open-source collection of educational materials related to machine learning and artificial intelligence

• ODI - Open Data Institute: Organization that provides many free data courses, resources, and toolkits.

• Designing Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners: Paper describing framework for designing tools for data literacy learners.

• Article - Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic COVID-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

• The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook: Article highlighting historical patters on oppression against Black women, and how they relate to "objectivity" in artificial intelligence.

• Tackling the climate crisis with data: Publication on how built environment impacts climate, and what can be done to mitigate these impacts.

Other Interesting Resources

• "By the people" Library of Congress: Web page run by the Library of congress that allows for crowd-sourcing of transcribing historical documents. Users and sign onto the page and assist with transcription.

• The Library of Missing Datasets: Art installation highlighting data that are needed, but unavailable.

• Zooniverse: Web page for assisting studies with crowd-sourced data collection.