ASOCEU - Lesson 2 - Data Visualization TOOLS
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This document provides a summary of online tools for creating graphs, visualizing data, and making infographics. It lists tools for creating graphs, infographics, maps, timelines, and interactive maps, including Canva, Infogr.am, Chartbuilder, Piktochart, Easel.ly, Tableau Public, Timeline JS, Timetoast, Datawrapper, UMap, Mapillary, and Mapbox. The document notes that these tools are experimental and may change or disappear over time.
ASOCEU - Lesson 2 - Data Visualization TOOLS
- 1. DATA VISUALISATION: SOME HELPFUL TOOLS
- 2. MAKING ONLINE GRAPHS AND VISUALISING THE DATA The following slides provide a summary of some online tools that may be helpful. But bear in mind: - they are experimental tools, they could change quickly (disappear, change from free to a paid service, change functionality) - you could find new and better ones using a more in-depth search
- 3. INFOGRAPHICS: CANVA CANVA is a very simple and effective graphic design tool, launched in 2012. It uses a drag- and-drop format and allows you to access photographs, vector images, graphics: https://www.canva.com
- 4. GRAPHICS AND INFOGRAPHICS: INFOGR.AM Infogr.am, built by a Scandinavian firm, allows you to create interactive graphics and infographics, with a great deal of attention on design: https://infogr.am
- 5. GRAPHS: CHARTBUILDER Developed by the American online news site Quartz, Chartbuilder allows you to build static graphs (bar, column, line, scatterplot): http://quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder
- 6. INFOGRAPHICS: PIKTOCHART Piktochart is a simple way of creating infographics and presentations: http://piktochart.com
- 7. INFOGRAPHICS: EASEL.LY Easel.ly is another easy tool for creating infographics: https://www.easel.ly
- 8. GRAPHS, INFOGRAPHICS, MAPS: TABLEAU PUBLIC Tableau Public provides a way to visualise data in infographics, graphs and maps: https://public.tableau.com/s/
- 9. TIMELINES: TIMELINE JS Timeline JS is a tool duly designed for creating timelines: http://timeline.knightlab.com
- 10. TIMELINES: TIMETOAST Timetoast is another easy-to-use tool for creating timelines: https://www.timetoast.com
- 11. MAPS AND GRAPHS: DATAWRAPPER Datawrapper, developed in Germany, allows you to create maps and graphs in a very simple way: https://www.datawrapper.de
- 12. INTERACTIVE MAPS: UMAP uMap uses OpenStreetMap for building interactive maps: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr
- 13. INTERACTIVE MAPS: MAPILLARY Mapillary is a collaborative Google Street View based on OpenStreetMap. This app allows you to share geotagged photos with the rest of the world; effectively, you create a street view from the ground by retracing landscapes, roads, paths … all you need is a smartphone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIUgBsHr2O4
- 14. INTERACTIVE MAPS: MAPBOX Mapbox is an open source platform that allows you to create maps, starting from a number of templates: https://www.mapbox.com
- 15. DATA VISUALISATION: SOME HELPFUL TOOLS