Resources
“The basic economic resource - the means of production -is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.”
Useful links, updated as I find them.
Expand your knowledge in various areas of coding, data design, and visualization by clicking on a topic below. Contact me if you like to share a link or suggest a topic.
Color Blindness Testing Tools
Color Blindness or color deficiency impacts 1/12 men and 1/200 woman. Red-Green blindness is the most common variant but other types exist. When design data visualizations, websites, and presentations it is useful to test how the selected color combinations will look to others. The tools below are useful for this testing.
Color Palette Selection Tools
Graphics, Graphs, and Text all work to convey a message. The color palette selected works to enhance that message. These tools work with color theory and other concepts to help you select the best color palette for your message.
Community Challenges
Community Viz Challenges gives you a chance to practice and try new viz approaches.
Weekly
Makeover Monday (Useful - not active)
Monthly
Annually / Semi-Annually / Bimonthly
Data Sets
A small listing of open-source data sets to use.
Fonts
Customize the look and create a specific vibe with font selection
Galleries
Looking for inspiration? Galleries listed below can help.
Chart Selection, Dashboards, Graph Tools
Health
KPI
Icons
Enhance your designs and visual touches.
R
Cheatsheets
Science
Style Guides
Tools
Training and Learning Resources
Science and Health
Stock Photos
Some of the links are to free sites, some are to paid sites, and some are a bit of both. Also, make sure to know how credit needs to be given when using any image.
Free
Public Domain Archive
Paid
