My Favorite Data Visualization and Dataset Resources

I wanted to put together a quick list of my favorite datasets and visualization resources! When I'm looking for a sample project, I use these for inspiration. I also use them for teaching! Thought they could be helpful for someone else too.

Visualizations

• FiveThirtyEight
• Flowing Data
• The Upshot
• Information is Beautiful Awards
• /r/dataisbeautiful
• The Pudding

Data Sets

• Google's Dataset Search
• List of Public APIs
• BuzzFeed News Data
• FiveThirtyEight Data
• Government Data
• Data is Plural
• /r/datasets
• ProPublica Political data sets
• Awesome Public Datasets
• Kaggle
• The Pudding

I asked about new ones on twitter a while ago, and got some of these from there! I linked the Tweet if you're interested in seeing more!

Comments

[Bradley Collins]

A while back I stumbled upon Sheetsee.js which allows you to connect Google Sheets to a website and use the data in there for Visualization.

Link: jlord.us/sheetsee.js/

It worked pretty well with D3.js

[Eugene Karataev]

I really like observable tool for visualizing data.
For example:
What Part of Your Body Will Kill You at Every Age
A* search
The most populous cities in the world

[Neal Grantham 🆖]

Thanks @aspittel !

Another great source of datasets and visualizations is the weekly Tidy Tuesday challenge by R for Data Science.

Read more at github.com/rfordatascience/tidytue... and browse past visualizations at tidytuesday.rocks.

Happy plotting!

[Yogeswaran]

Well gotta add some to my list now! Thanks for the dataset resources! :)

[K]

Nice!
I was just looking for datasets (ecommerce/products, business intelligence, customer rel, etc.) to try some visual stuff.

[Lucas Homer]

Thanks so much! You da bawsss 🤜🤛