Browse Data Sets and Data Visualizations on Visualizing.org

Visualizing.org is a community site for sharing data visualizations. Anyone can upload their data visualizations to the public gallery. The...

Sports and Data Visualizations

The World Series champion Boston Red Sox begin a new season today. Baseball players and their fans are fanatical about statistics. The same ...

Make Data Analysis Visual With Maps

The phrase “data analysis” gets no one except for the most numbers-happy people excited. Rather than having students simply stare at data se...

Visual Metaphors and Ideas for Creating Visualizations of Complex Ideas

Lee Lefever at Common Craft is a master of creating visualizations and explanations of complex ideas. So when he posted a TED-Ed video abo...

Six Resources to Help Students See the Effects of Climate Change

This month's issue of National Geographic includes a feature on glacial meltdown. Part of the online complement to that article is the i...

Ten Places to Find and Create Data Visualizations

Following yesterday's post about ChartsBin I received a request from a reader for suggestions for other tools that students can use to ...

A Big Collection of Mapped Data Visualizations

ChartsBin is a free service that anyone can use to create mapped data visualizations. It's also a place to find data visualizations cre...

8 Infographics for Visualizing the Environment

Visualizing.org is a community site for people who create infographics and for people who just want to view and organize infographics. Visu...

Create Heat Maps from a CSV File

Heat Map Tool is a tool for easily creating heat maps or incident maps from a CSV file . To create a heat map all you need to do is upload ...

Visualizing the World's 50 Most Prominent Peaks

The Guardian recently published an excellent interactive data visualization of the world's 50 most prominent peaks . The visualization o...

Knoema - World Data Maps and More

Knoema is a huge collection of data sets and maps for public use. Knoema offers data maps and charts for almost every country in the world....

Easily Create Infographics with Easel.ly

Infographics are all over the web right now because they can be great for displaying and sharing information. If you have wanted to try maki...

Create Mapped Data Visualizations on GeoCommons

GeoCommons provides excellent tools for creating and sharing map-based data visualizations. Users can select a from twelve base maps to bui...

UNDP Development Data Interactive Map

Over the weekend through Noel Jenkins I learned about a neat interactive map from the UNDP. The UN Stat Planet Map allows you to create us...

Economy Map - Visualizations of the US Economy's Environmental Impact

Economy Map is an interactive visualization of the environmental impact of the U.S. economy. The visualization offers a series of graphs an...

Seven Tools for Creating Data Visualizations

This morning I received an email asking me for some tools for creating data visualizations. Here are seven tools that students can use to bu...

How to Use Gapminder Desktop

In a post earlier today I mentioned Gapminder. Gapminder is a great tool for creating data visualizations.  Gapminder  gives users the abi...

Hohli - A Simple Tool for Creating Online Charts

Hohli Online Charts Builder is a nice tool for creating a variety of charts for online display. Using the Hohli Online Charts Builder you c...

How to Make Data Visualizations with Many Eyes

Late last year I posted a review of a free data visualization creation tool from IBM called Many Eyes . Over the weekend I learned, via Larr...

What We Pay For - Where Your Tax Dollars Go

In case you haven't seen the barrage of HR Block and Turbo Tax commercials on TV lately, tax season is upon us in the United States. For...