Awesome Data Visualization Education

Overview

Awesome Data Visualization Education provides curated open educational resources for learning data visualization principles, techniques, and tools.

Core Topics

Fundamentals

• Visual encoding principles
• Color theory for visualization
• Chart types and when to use them
• Data-to-visual mapping
• Perceptual principles

Theory

• Information visualization theory
• Visual analytics
• Storytelling with data
• Dashboard design

Tools & Technologies

• D3.js for custom visualizations
• Tableau for business intelligence
• Python (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)
• R (ggplot2, Shiny)
• Observable notebooks

Learning Resources

Online Courses

• Data Visualization courses on Coursera
• Udacity Data Visualization
• Observable tutorials
• D3.js courses

Books

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)
• Visualization Analysis and Design (Munzner)
• Storytelling with Data (Nussbaumer Knaflic)

Interactive Tutorials

• D3 Graph Gallery
• Observable examples
• Vega-Lite tutorials

Practice Projects

• Recreate famous visualizations
• Analyze public datasets
• Build interactive dashboards
• Create data stories

Communities

• r/dataisbeautiful
• Data Visualization Society
• Observable community
• Tableau Public gallery