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Reference Books
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- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2001. 2nd edition
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- The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. Available as an ebook in the Library.
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- Dill, J., Earnshaw, R., Kasik, D., Vince, J., Wong, P.C. (Eds.)
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- Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization, 2012, Springer-Verlag. Available as an ebook in the library.
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- Information Visualization: Perception for
Design, 2nd edition, 2006. (ebook
available in library)
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- Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben
Shneiderman
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- Daniel Shiffman
[Shiffman]
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| Media |
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| Visualization Websites |
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- An annotated gallery of visualizations
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- Data projects at the University of Chicago Data for the Common Good project
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| Some data sources |
- Government open data sites (search "open data")
- may include crime data, traffic data etc
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- open.canada.ca/en/open-data
- https://data.gov.bc.ca/
- https://data.gov.bc.ca/
- data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/
- data.surrey.ca/
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- Multinational open data (UN,WHO, etc)
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- data.un.org
- http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/en/
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- Open Data portals (for some of these you need an account, but it's free
- Dataportals is a comprehensive list of open data portals in the world.
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- www.kaggle.net
- https://data.world/
- dataportals.org
- Check the new SQL tutorials on data.world
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- Re3data: Global registry of research data repositories, available to SFU
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- Abacus data server: Licensed data for SFU use
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- http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB4/BVAS/resource/10648
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| Software and Digital Tools |
- d3 list of functions (API)
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- Mike Bostock's d3 examples (with code)
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- Tableau Software. You download a copy for
use in the class. Tableau's data
visualization software is provided through the Tableau
for Teaching program.
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