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There was a recent query on the PhD-Design-List regarding sources for designers on how to make good info-graphics and data-visualizations. I am collating the options being put forward by people here, just for the record.

• Manuel Lima’s work 
  • The book: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information | The website: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• Edward Tufte’s books (Website)
  • The Visual Display of Quantitive Information
  • Envisioning Information
  • Visual Explanations
• Data Flow: v 2 by Robert Klanten N. Bourquin and S. Ehmann
• Information is Beautiful by David McCandless | Website: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
• Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language by Robert Klanten, S. Ehmann and Franz Schulze
• Primer of Visual Literacy, by Donis A. Dondis
• Flowing Data Website | Book Visualize This: The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
• Infosthetics Website
• Information Visualization Links maintained by System Orientated Design (An excellent resource (quite a bit of overlap with this list but lots of unique resources as well)
• List of Open Source Graphics and Visualization Tools maintained by Karl Gude at Michigan State University.

I will be adding to this list as people post more sources.

Image: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom 0.1 Image by MichaelKreil (from Flickr)

| Posted on: February 16th, 2013
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