Data Viz Resources

Inchoate's first Friday resources post

Eventually I’ll settle into a weekly routine for posts. I’m thinking Fridays will be for sharing resources.

Today’s topic is data visualization. Here are two of my favorite sites for having a look at megatrends. Plus, there’s one bonus site.

Our World in Data

Brought to you by researchers at the University of Oxford in partnership with the Global Change Data Lab, which maintains the website, Our World in Data is on a mission.

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

Here is their page on biodiversity, for example, and an example chart.

Visual Capitalist

Visual Capitalist goes well beyond charting world problems to cover all kinds of topics, including economics and industry. They use mostly public data and create their own visualizations, although guest posts are also frequently published through their Creator Program.

Here is a post on “The Anthropocene Era in 5 Charts” including charts on human land use, food production, global greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures, and risks.

Bonus Video

FlowingData is a membership site that teaches data visualization through tutorials and courses, but they curate a wide variety of visualizations, maps, and infographics from all over the web. Here is a nice video: “Welcome to the Anthropocene.”

Happy exploring!