There are so many varied web resources for (geospatial) data visualization. It is a HUGE field. The following represents some of the resources available from software to academic articles to cool interesting mapping web sites. This list is obviously not exhaustive and changes so rapidly. I have updated this list as of September 2017. A huge thank-you to Joey Lee for providing much of this input (see below for his cool and inspiring resources). Here is one of Joey’s local visualizations using software CARTO that you will learn this term.

Cartographic Research (journals)

organ state web site list all cartography journals and latest issues

Software

GIS
Quantum GIS – FOSS (free & open source software)
ArcGIS UBC Student Edition – $25 for a year

Graphics
Adobe Illustrator – free 30 day trial version
Inkscape – FOSS graphic design
GIMP – FOSS photo editor like Photoshop

Interactive mapping
CARTO – SAAS (and perhaps too freemium) (SAAS – software as a service – ie free but charge for hosting, big datasets) interactive mapping software this site also has a good blog for examples of location mapping
Mapbox SAAS interactive mapping software

Programming
Python – very popular language and used by data visuzliazationist for manipulating geospatial data – many learning tools, free tutorials on ESRI’s web site for example, python used in ArcGIS
R and R Studio – FOSS see some examples below from Joey, R is a statistical programming language and R with leaflet allows the creation of interactive maps (R for data manipulation and leaflet for mapping)
Leaflet a javascript library lets you code interactive maps with say R
JavaScript – programming language for web design – used with other mapping packages like leaflet, D3
D3.js– a JavaScript library for manipulation DataDrivenDocuments. used for alot of infographics

Tools

ColorBrewer
TypeBrewer (being rewritten from FLASH to HTML)
MapShaper (software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON and other data formats, written in JavaScript.

Cartography and Data Visualization Blogs/posts

Instagram – A map a day
Andy Woodruff
Strange Maps
Something About Maps
Cartastrophe
Flowing Data
Information is Beautiful
Cartogrammar (also by Andy Woodruff)
Making Maps
type into google cool maps and you will get some interesting sites

Cartography Associations

North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
International Cartographic Association (ICA)
American Association of Geographers – Cartography Specialty Group

Joey’s list !!

Joey Lee is a super cool data viz person who helped me with this course in 2015. Check him out.

Resources:

Tutorials / Learning

General Programming Web Resources / Books / More:

• Code Academy
• Code School
• Python for Data Analysis
• Javascript & JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
• Lighthouse Labs, Vancouver
• Free Code Camp – looks super promising
• http://eloquentjavascript.net/
• Let’s Make a Map (D3) https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1-897aa8f8ca2c
• https://www.mapbox.com/
• http://leafletjs.com/
• http://postgis.net/ (database extender for PostgreSQL)

Processing:

• Dan Shiffman’s ICM Video Series
• Processing, A Programming Handbook for Visual Artists & Designers, Casey Reas
• Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction, Dan Shiffman
• Hello Processing

R:

• Code School’s Quick Intro to R
• Data Camp for R
• R Data Viz Cheat Sheet
• Map tutorials for R:
  • Harvard R map tutorial

TileMill / Mapbox Studio:

• Joey’s Tilemill tutorial – “Hello Web Maps”
• Mapbox Studio Manual Start Guide

D3

• Scott Murray’s Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
• D3 Examples
• An Excellent intro to D3 as an SVG Manipulator

Tools:

• CSV kit
• JSON to CSV conversion
• Tableau

Map Helpers:

• MJ Foster’s Overview of Projections
• Bivariate Choroplet Maps
• The Geo Stack – Highly recommended, free if you are not being paid for your time!
• GDAL Cheat Sheat
• Geojson to vector tiles
• Tilehut.js – your own personal hut for tiles

Data Viz – Good Practices:

• Good data sharing practices 🙂
• Tidy Data
• Rules to Follow
• Data Viz Mantras

Data Sources / Data Visualization Challenges / Data Ideas

• OpenStreetMap
• Mapzen Metro Extracts – weekly updated extracts of OSM data in a bunch of different formats 🙂

Data Viz Course Materials from Other (awesome) places

• RISD – Data: Multi-sensory Representation
• RISD – Visualizing Data

Culture:

Talks, Podcasts, Videos, Links, & More:

• Data Stori.es Podcast with Moritz and Enrico
• Eyeo 2015 – Deray Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe
• Nathan Yau – Flowing Data
• Kim Reas – Living, Breathing Data
• Lauren McCarthy – Open Viz Conference, learning through making
• Maptime Berlin
• Robert Kosara – Story Telling with data
• Supercolony.co – 365 days of generative art
• Ira Glass’s – The Gap
• WHY EXPLORING BIG DATA IS HARD AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT Danyel Fisher
• Disinformation Visualization
• Critical Cartography
• FOSS4G
• Nat Geo – eye candy

People & Places (in no particular order)

• Casey Reas
• * Ben Fry
• Benedikt Gross
• * MIT Senseable City Lab
• Pedro Cruz
• * Tamara Munzner
• * Alberto Cairo
• Moritz Stefaner
• Propublica
• Mozilla Open Science Lab
• Maptime Vancouver
• Mapbox
• Mapzen
• * Stamen
• Moovel Labs
• Kyuha Shim
• Till Nagel
• Pierrick Thébault
• * Carlo Ratti Sensible Cities lab MIT, first lecture reference
• Barabasi Lab
• Chris Pietsch
• Trevor Paglen
• * Andy Woodruff Axis maps, good examples
• Jer Thorp
• * Gregor Aisch New York Times
• Tulp Interactive
• Lauren McCarthy
• * Brian Jacobs National Geographic
• Dietmar Offenhuber
• Aaron Koblin Processing, flight path
• Spatial Information Design Lab SIDL
• MIT Media Lab
• UCLA DESMA
• Cartography Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• * Scott Murray interesting speaker, D3 programming tutorials
• Mike Bostock
• Martin Wattenberg
• * Bill Radkin, Radical Cartography
• * Axis Maps (Andy Woodruff company)
• * Periscopic Studio (us gun death visual)
• James Bridle – check out dronestagram, & mapping cctvs in london
• Tom MacWright – a map boss extraordinaire
• Mike Migurski – another map boss extraordinaire

Nice Visualizations:

• Common Mythconceptions
• Earth on Wires
• How we made “Losing Ground”
• * What is Money Laundering quite the infographic!
• * Madrid Subway complaints by station CARTO example
• * Nature – refugee infographic example 
• Flood Map Disputes
• * The Flavor Connection infograpahic
• Mapping Tennis Data
• David Leonard’s Fatalatour
• Data DJ
• * NY Times – Syria War Deaths infographic
• Moritz Stefaner’s, Digital Shape of Cities
• Prison Map
• Tampa Bay Times – i Failure Factories
• Why is there a Syrian Refugee Crisis
• * VIsual.ly (company) examples of infographics

Misc:

• Beginners guide to wireframing
• Hearing Colors
• Fine Mapping
• One nation under cctv
• Github for teaching
• Mapping Zebras – FH Potsdam
• Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver – Geography Lesson
• Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Explained

Meetups/Groups in Vancouver:

• R meetup group – Mozilla Chapter
  • Github link to R mini science group