https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/speculative-everything
Viz Heads
LUTO: making information clear
Websites and Inspirational Storytelling Platforms, Datavis
Some of the best visual essays and journalistic storytelling visualizations, produced by Matt Daniels and his collaborative team in Brooklyn.
Tumblr page of the Washington Post Graphics team
The Upshot / The New York Times
Data visualization column at The New York Times
Data, design, and stats blog run by Nathan Yau
Visualization blog founded by David McCandless, sharing information graphics and visualizations of all sorts
Top web design resource
Open Source Data Visualization Building Resources
- Bl.ocks by Mike Bostock
Data / Design Resources
- Data Viz Catalogue (great for example graphs and visual encoding starting point)
Suggested Readings and Books, Datavis
- Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
- Scott Murray, Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
- Colin Ware, Information Visualization
Alvin’s favorite visual and data storytelling books:
Missing Migrants Project
Data Visualization Style Guidelines
Making a Data Visualization, the stack

Google Books (Ngram Viewer)
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