Resources

Getting Started with R

• Instructions for installing R, RStudio, and all the tidyverse packages
• The Tidyverse Style Guide, suggestions for good coding practices
• Stata to R::Cheat Sheet

Finding Data

• Jenn Huck, UVA’s Data Librarian and the library’s Data Resources pages
• Find and Question Your Data, from Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, Hands-On Data Visualization.
• Data.gov, home of the U.S. Government’s open data
• CDC Wonder, public health-related data
• FBI Crime data explorer, for criminal, noncriminal, law enforcement data
• Stanford Open Policing Project, a collection of traffic stop datasets from across the country
• Small Business Adminsitration’s PPP data
• World Bank, open access to global development data
• US City Open Data Census, the Sunlight Foundation and Code for America collects data on city open data portals throughout the U.S.
• Charlottesville Open Data Portal
• Urban Institute’s Data Catalog
• Data is Plural, Jeremy Singer-Vine’s weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets
• Erik Gahner’s list of political science datasets, a huge list of useful datasets, divided by topic (governance, elections, policy, political elites, etc.).
• Google Dataset Search, search for thousands of public data sets indexed by Google.
• Kaggle Datasets, datasets hosted for various data science competitions over the years
• So many sources…
  

Chart Galleries

• The R Graph Gallery
• The Data Visualisation Catalogue
• The Data Viz Project
• From Data to Viz
• Which Visualization?
• The Chartmaker Diretory

Visualization Inspiration

• The Pudding
• BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics
• Fivethirtyeight examples and their data archive
• Visualizing Data, by Andy Kirk (check out the archive of monthly/weekly best of lists)
• Flowing Data, by Nathan Yau
• Information is Beautiful, by David McCandless
• Data Viz Weekly, weekly examples by AnyChart
• Seeing Data, by a collection of researchers
• Info we Trust, by RJ Andrews
• UW Interactive Data Lab, a computer science lab at University of Washington to enhance the understanding and communication of data
• Visual Thinking Lab, a psychology lab at Northwestern studying visual thinking
• PolicyViz, by Jonathan Schwabisch
  

Data Art

• Hand Crafted, by William R. Chase
• Data Paintings, by Giora Simchoni
• Data to Art, curated by Yan Holtz
• Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
• Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas collaborations (science and art)
• Amplifying Data through Art, profile of artists who represent data
• Accidental aRt, twitter account of data viz errors that might be art
• Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination, an exhibit at Stanford Libraries

Color

R Resources

• viridis
• RColorBrewer based on ColorBrewer by Cynthia Brewer
• Wes Anderson Palettes
• Ghibli Palettes
• Emil Hvitfeldt’s GitHub of R Color Palettes
• R Color Cheatsheet

General Resources

• Adobe Color
• Viz Palette
• Color Hunt
• Coolers
• Paletton
• I want hue
• Colorgorical
• Colorpicker

R Markdown

• R Markdown cheatsheet
• Markdown cheatsheet
• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
• RStudio’ R Markdown Resources
• Cosma Shalizi’s Using R Mardown for Class Reports
• 10 Awesome R Markdown Tricks

Mapping

• tiydcensus for pulling census data, and mapping with ggplot::geom_sf
• More ggplot::geom_sfexamples and tutorials
• Examples with ggplot::geom_polygon and ggmaps
• Using tmap and a great resource for using spatial data in R more generally
• Leaflet example

Odds and Ends

• The Design of Interactive Articles, some theory
• Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny, by Carson Sievert
• Sharing html on the web, by Yihui Xie, Christophe Dervieux, Emily Riederer
• Interactive tables with reactable, be sure to check out the Demos (or recreating a table from the Economist)
• Interactive tables with DT
• 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R
• File formats, by Claus Wilke
• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science, by Kieran Healy
• LearnR4Free