Resources

Recommended Bibliography

Basic Bibliography

• Munzner, T. (2014) Visualization analysis and design. CRC Press.
• Tufte, E. R. (2018) The visual display of quantitative information. Graphics Press.
• Wickham, H., & Sievert, C. (2016) ggplot2: Elegant graphics for data analysis. Springer. [online]

Additional Bibliography

• Cleveland, W. S. (1985) The elements of graphing data. Wadsworth Inc.
• Meirelles, I. (2013) Design for information. Rockport Publishers.
• Rahlf, T. (2019) Data Visualisation with R: 111 examples. Springer.
• Tufte, E. R. (2018) Envisioning information. Graphics Press.
• Tufte, E. R. (2019) Visual explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative. Graphics Press.
• Tufte, E. R. (2019) Beautiful evidence. Graphics Press.
• Ware, C. (2021) Information visualization: Perception for design. Elsevier.
• Wilkinson, L. (2005) The grammar of graphics. Springer New York.

Online Resources

Ideas for Projects

• Over 60 New York Times Graphs for Students to Analyze: A collection of graphs, maps and charts organized by topic and graph type from three years of “What’s Going On in This Graph?”
• The Pew Research Center produces lots of high-quality visualizations of social data.
• The Economist publishes very nice data-driven stories.
• The Australian Grattan Institute publishes reports with great visualizations, and each report is accompanied by the data used to create them.

Miscellanea

• ggplot2 docs
• ggplot2 extensions
• Data visualization with ggplot2 cheatsheet
• Awesome ggplot2
• The R Graph Gallery
• TidyTuesday
• A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R, by Cédric Scherer