This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | Details of our policyColor Brewer: Color Brewer helps users choose appropriate colors with attention to accessibility and printability. Export and download your colors to use in GIS, Adobe products, and Excel.
Adobe Color: Adobe Color lets users discover and create their own color schemes. Users can download their color scheme as a .ase file to use with Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
Data Viz Project: An interactive library of chart types and their use cases. Helpful in deciding what kind of chart might best represent the data you have.
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Tableau Public creates fast and easy interactive visualizations with Tableau Public. Tableau Public is free but users are not able to make their data private and must save their visualizations to the web. To make data private, users have to upgrade to Tableau Desktop. Students and faculty can request a one-year renewable license for Tableau Desktop directly from Tableau.
Tableau Public Help - Online help for using Tableau public.
Formatting Data for Tableau Public - Learn how to properly format your data for Tableau Public.
LinkedIn Learning - Check out the Tableau Essential Training to get started in Tableau.
Tableau Tim - Hundreds of Tableau tutorial videos on YouTube from the "Bob Ross of Tableau".
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RawGraphs is a web based tool for creating quick visualizations. It's great for exploratory visualizationbut can also create nice simple explanatory visualizations as well.
Google Data Studio is an online tool for converting data into customizable informative reports and dashboards
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Voyant is a rare data visualization tool that works with qualitative data, while most tools require numeric data, Voyant allows you to create visualizations of texts.
Datawrapper: An open-source tool for creating charts. Share and embed the charts in your website using the provided embed code or link.
Gapminder: Compare data sets on various global indicators to explore trends over time. Gapminder includes lots of great data and an engaging animated format. You cannot upload your own data to Gapminder.
Replica is a cutting-edge platform that helps users access and visualize data about mobility, land use, and economic activity related to specific geographies.Current Georgetown faculty and students must sign up for a Replica account using their Georgetown.edu email address. Click on the "Sign Up" tab to create an account.
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Piktochart: Create attractive and modern infographics with Piktochart. The free account has limited themes and limited image uploads, but is still quite usable and provides users with an embed code and link for sharing. The free account does not let users make their infographics private.
Piktochart Support - Get help creating infographics using Piktochart.
Canva: a web-based graphic design platform that can create infographics
Visual.ly: Visual.ly features a huge collection of infographics and data visualizations but it also allows users to create their own infographics using predesigned themes and templates.
Easel.ly: Create infographics quickly and easily. Easel.ly provides a variety of icons, shapes, and fonts to customize any of their templates. Sign up for an easel.ly account to make your infographics private or public and to get a link or embed code for sharing.
MindOnMap: Free website for making flow charts or similar relationship maps. Great for brainstorming and outlining, with a simple user interface.
Lucidchart: Website for making flowcharts and relationship maps, with hundreds of templates to choose from. Sign up for an individual account with a .edu email address, and get automatically upgraded to a free education account.
D3: D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3's emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
Inkscape: An open-source vector graphics editor. An excellent and free alternative to Adobe Illustrator.
Inkscape Guide - A detailed guide on using Inkscape, available in web format or as an e-book.
Inkscape Tutorials - A few tutorials provided by Inkscape.
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Adobe Illustrator: A powerful vector graphics editor that is popular for creating static visualizations. There is a free 30-day trial for the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite (including Illustrator). After the trial period, users can elect to subscribe to the programs they want on a month-to-month basis. Available on computers throughout Lauinger library: see this chart for more information.
Creating Graphs in Adobe Illustrator - Instructions by Adobe for how to create and customize nine different types of graphs.
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Photoshop: A powerful image editing and manipulation program. There is a free 30-day trial for the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite (including Photoshop). After the trial period, users can elect to subscribe to the programs they want on a month-to-month basis. Available on computers throughout Lauinger library: see this chart for more information.
Processing: An open-source language for programming. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach programming fundamentals within a visual context, Processing has also evolved into a development tool for professionals.
The Noun Project: A repository of icons uploaded by graphic designers for public use. Icons are available for free (requires attribution) or for a small fee (does not require attribution).
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