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Resources for Engaging Students with Completed Data Visualizations

Information is Beautiful
From the site: Founded by David McCandless, author of two bestselling infographics books, Information is Beautiful is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world. All our visualizations are based on facts and data: constantly updated, revised and revisioned.
Bad Visualisations
From the site: A collection of weird graphics and visualisations from here, there and everywhere.
Tableau Viz of the Day
From the site: Get inspired by over 3 million interactive data visualizations created by more than 1 million people from around the world. From music to sports and politics, Tableau Public users have created visualizations on every possible topic.
The Pudding
From the site: The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.
FlowingData
From the site: FlowingData explores how we use analysis and visualization to understand data and ourselves.

Introducing Data Visualizations to Your Students

TED Talk: The Beauty of Data Visualization
David McCandless, founder of Information is Beautiful, has a TED Talk that offers a starting point to begin data visualization discussions.

Engaging Students with Data Visualizations

Articles Referenced in Video

Gallagher, J.R. & Devoss, D.N. (2020). Introduction to the special issue: Data visualization in composition studies. Kairos, 25(1). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/25.1/coverweb/gallagher-devoss/index.html

Hinrichs, Forlini, S., & Moynihan, B. (2019). In defense of sandcastles: Research thinking through visualization in digital humanities. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(Supplement_1), i80–i99. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy051

Sinclair, S., Ruecker, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2013). Information visualization for humanities scholars. Literary Studies in the Digital Age. https://dlsanthology.mla.hcommons.org/information-visualization-for-humanities-scholars

Visualizations Referenced in Video

Need Help Getting Started?

Need help brainstorming an assignment? Interested in incorporating data visualization into your course, but not sure where to begin or what resources to use? Interested in an info session for your students on creating data visualizations in Adobe? Get in touch at sjohnso2@irsc.edu, or fill out this form to get started.

Project Information

This project was created as part of the Turning Digital: Humanities and the Digital Revolution series. Funding for this lecture series was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this website or in any lectures do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Tools and Resources for Student Creation

Data visualization tips for infographics.
Tips for creating simple infographics in Adobe Creative Cloud Express which is available to all IRSC students through the Adobe Creative Suite
Tableau for Students
Students can create a free account using a .edu email address.
Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
Datawrapper
The basic plan is free, but requires students to create an account. More advanced tools require a subscription, but the free resources are more than sufficient for student projects.

Pedagogical Resources & Inspiration

Books at IRSC Libraries

Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke
ISBN: 9781492031086
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
Design Is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton
ISBN: 9781942303190
Publication Date: 2017-11-21