Contents

• Awesome dataviz
  • JavaScript tools
    • Charting libraries
    • Charting libraries for graphs
    • Maps
    • d3
    • React
    • Misc
  • Android tools
  • C++ tools
  • Excel tools
  • Golang tools
  • iOS tools
  • Python tools
  • R tools
  • Ruby tools
  • Markup-based tools
  • Other tools
• Resources
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Twitter accounts
  • Websites

JavaScript tools

Charting libraries

• ApexCharts – Modern & Interactive SVG Charts.
• Chart.js – Charts with the canvas tag.
• Chartist.js – Responsive charts with great browser compatibility.
• dc.js is an multi-Dimensional charting built to work natively with crossfilter.
• Dimple – An object-oriented API for business analytics.
• Dygraphs – Interactive line charts library that works with huge datasets.
• Echarts – Highly customizable and interactive charts ready for big datasets. React wrapper
• Epoch – Perfect to create real-time charts.
• MetricsGraphics.js – Optimized for time-series data.
• NVD3 – A reusable charting library written in d3.js.
• Plotly.js – Powerful declarative library with support for 20 chart types.
• TechanJS – Stock and financial charts.
• TOAST UI Chart – Complete library with support for legacy browsers.

Charting libraries for graphs

• Cola.js – A tool to create diagrams using constraint-based optimization techniques. Works with d3 and svg.js.
• Cytoscape.js – JavaScript library for graph drawing maintained by Cytoscape core developers.
• Sigma.js – JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.
• VivaGraph – Graph drawing library for JavaScript.

Maps

• CARTO – CARTO is an open source tool that allows for the storage and visualization of geospatial data on the web.
• Cesium – WebGL 3D globes and maps.
• Deck.gl – WebGL framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets.
• DataMaps – Interactive SVG maps using D3.js.
• Leaflet – JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
• Mapael – jQuery plugin based on raphael.js to display vector maps.

d3

• See Awesome D3

React

• BizCharts – Alibaba data visualization library based on G2 and React. English docs
• React-vis – React components to build data visualizations.
• Recharts – Declarative react components to render D3 charts.
• Victory – Composable components for building interactive data visualizations
• nivo – Supercharged dataviz components for React with isomorphic ability, demo.
• React Svg Textures – Textures.js ported to React. Fully isomorphic.
• DevExtreme React Chart – High-performance plugin-based React chart for Bootstrap and Material Design.

Misc

• Piecon – Pie charts in your favicon.
• Textures.js – A library to create SVG patterns.
• Timeline.js – Create interactive timelines.
• Vega – Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs.
• Vis.js – A dynamic visualization library including timeline, networks and graphs (2D and 3D).

Android tools

• DecoView – Animated circular wheel chart library.
• MPAndroidChart – A powerful & easy to use chart library.
• WilliamChart – Simple chart library.

Excel tools

• Best Excel Maps – Choropleth maps for Microsoft Excel.

C++ tools

• LargeVis – implementation of the LargeVis paper, used to visualize large-scale and high-dimensional data.
• PlotJuggler – open-source Qt5 application to plot charts (based on Qwt).
• Visualization Toolkit (VTK) – open-source library for 3d Graphics, image processing and visualization.

Golang tools

• svgo – Go Language Library for SVG generation.

iOS tools

• BEMSimpleLineGraph – Highly customizable and interactive line graphs.
• Charts – iOS port of MPAndroidChart. You can create charts for both platforms with very similar code.
• JBChartView – Charting library for both line and bar graphs.
• PNChart – A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan.

Python tools

• altair – Declarative statistical visualizations, based on Vega-Lite.
• bokeh – Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
• Chartify – Bokeh wrapper that makes it easy for data scientists to create charts.
• diagram – Text mode diagrams using UTF-8 characters
• ggplot – plotting system based on R’s ggplot2.
• glumpy – OpenGL scientific visualizations library.
• holoviews – Complex and declarative visualizations from annotated data.
• mayai – interactive scientific data visualization and 3D plotting in Python.
• matplotlib – 2D plotting library.
• missingno – provides flexible toolset of data-visualization utilities that allows quick visual summary of the completeness of your dataset, based on matplotlib.
• plotly – Interactive web based visualization built on top of plotly.js
• PyQtGraph – Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
• PyVista – 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
• seaborn – A library for making attractive and informative statistical graphics.
• toyplot – The kid-sized plotting toolkit for Python with grownup-sized goals.
• three.py – Easy to use 3D library based on PyOpenGL. Inspired by Three.js.
• veusz – Python multiplatform GUI plotting tool and graphing library
• VisPy – High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.
• vtk – 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization that includes a Python interface.

R tools

• ggplot2 – A plotting system based on the grammar of graphics.
• ggvis – A data visualization package with a syntax similar to ggplot2 which allows you to create rich interactive graphics.
• lattice – trellis graphics for R
• plotly – Interactive charts (including adding interactivity to ggplot2 output), cartograms and simple network diagrams
• rbokeh – R Interface to Bokeh.
• rgl – 3D Visualization Using OpenGL
• shiny – Framework for creating interactive applications/visualisations
• visNetwork – Interactive network visualisations

Ruby tools

• Chartkick – Create charts with one line of Ruby.

Markup-based tools

• mermaidjs – A simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript
• viz-js.com – A hack to put Graphviz on the web
• wavedrom.com – Draws your Timing Diagram or Waveform from simple textual description

Other tools

Tools that are not tied to a particular platform or language.

• Charted – A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file.
• Circos – Visualizes data in a circular layout, ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. Mirror on github.
• Gephi – An open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs
• Kepler.gl – Geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
• Lightning – A data-visualization server providing API-based access to reproducible, web-based, interactive visualizations.
• RAW – Create web visualizations from CSV or Excel files.
• Spark – Sparklines for the shell. It have several implementations in different languages.

Resources

Books

• Design for Information by Isabel Meirelles.
• The Best American Infographics 2014 by Gareth Cook.
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte.
• The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics by Dona M. Wong
• Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner.
• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray. Available to read online. Focused on D3.
• Data Visualization Toolkit by Barrett Austin Clark. Uses D3, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, PostGIS, & Leaflet.

Podcasts

• Data Stories
• DataFramed

Twitter accounts

• Alberto Cairo
• Benjamin Wiederkehr
• Mara Averick
• Martin Wattenberg
• Mike Bostock
• Nadieh Bremer
• NYT Graphics
• Visualizing

Websites

• Ann K. Emery‘s blog
• Data Visualization Society – The Data Visualization Society is an organization dedicated to fostering community for data visualization professionals.
• eagereyes
• EvergreenData
• FlowingData
• Gnuplotting – Gnuplot tutorials
• Information is Beautiful
• Junk Charts – Kaiser Fung takes apart why certain datavizes work/don’t work
• Lisa Rost thinks and discusses about why we dataviz
• Makeover Monday blog – #MakeoverMonday on twitter
• The Data Visualization Catalogue – A collection of data visualization methods, with pros and cons.
• the functional art
• The Open News blog – Open news has some good dataviz related articles from time to time
• The Pudding
• Truth & Beauty Operations
• University of Washington Interactive Data Lab Papers
• vis4.net – Random thoughts on visualization and data journalism by Gregor Aisch
• Visual Complexity – A site about the visualization of complex networks.