I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited about getting to play with new stuff while learning how to visualize data. The following is a list of tools, references, and course materials that I’ll be making use of in the coming weeks. I will try my darndest to keep this updated.
Course Textbooks
Stanton, J. M. (2013). An introduction to data science. Syracuse, N.Y.
Yau, N. (2013). Data points: Visualization that means something.
Yau, N. (2011). Visualize this: The FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics. Indianapolis, Ind: Wiley Pub.
Web References
Daring Fireball – site hosting a handy Markdown resource
Software
R – a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics
R-Studio – an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Remarkable – markdown Editor
StackEdit – In browser markdown Editor
imagemagick – conversion tool
NodeBox3k – Open source data visualization and graphic creation tool
Web-based Visualization Tools
Plotly – online analytics and visualization tool
Places to Find Sample Data
Open Data, State of New York – data and other resources
Data.gov – data and other resources often at a national level
Miscellany
Data is Nature – long running blog on many topics but mostly related to the computational, scientific, and artistic usage of data