You\u2019re welcome to use whichever tools you prefer for your data visualizations, but these are the tools with which we have the most experience and recommend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can get pretty far with\u00a0Excel\u2019s built-in charts and graphs<\/strong>. They often don\u2019t look wonderful, but if they work, they work! Data\u00a0at\u00a0Work<\/a><\/em>, by Jo\u0303rge Camoes<\/a>, is a very thorough look at how to use Excel for data visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tableau<\/a> <\/strong>has a lot of advanced features and documentation. If you want to install it on your own laptop, choose Tableau Public<\/a>. This tool can be a little overwhelming at first, but the Lynda library has video tutorials; you might start with \u201cUp and Running with Tableau.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can make some really cool graphs and charts with\u00a0RAW<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0and it\u2019s easy to embed them on a website. The alluvial diagram is always a big hit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quadrigram<\/a><\/strong> is a drag-and-drop, web-based tool for data visualization that\u2019s pretty easy to use, and it\u2019s pretty easy to embed the charts and graphs in your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DataWrapper<\/a> <\/strong>makes great-looking, simple, embeddable data visualizations. Definitely recommended if you\u2019re not trying to do anything super-complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love\u00a0Palladio<\/a><\/strong>, but it\u2019s important to understand what it is and what it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s designed for the exploration (not necessarily the presentation) of humanities data. So while you can produce some impressive visualizations, you can\u2019t really embed them. (You can take screenshots, though!) I have a full tutorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to compare and contrast many images with each other, you can try ImagePlot<\/a><\/strong>, but just be aware that it\u2019s not super-easy to use and we haven\u2019t tested it in awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to try your hand at some custom programming<\/strong>, we recommend the JavaScript libraries D3<\/a> and P5<\/a>. They\u2019re not too hard to use! For learning D3, this is my favorite book<\/a>. For learning P5, this is the best resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want more tools? Here\u2019s a huge list.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whatever tool, you choose, be sure you pick the right visualization for your data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You\u2019re welcome to use whichever tools you prefer for your data visualizations, but these are the tools with which we have the most experience and recommend: You can get pretty far … <\/p>\n