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Creating Data Visualizations

This research guide will help you learn how to create effective data visualizations using library, campus, and other resources. It includes links to tools and databases, best practices for data visualizations, and more general visual literacy information.

What is a Data Visualization

  • Finch-Claydon, D. M. (2021). Big data in small slices : data visualization for communicators. Routledge.
  • Kennedy, H., & Engbretsen, M. (2020). Data Visualization in Society (H. Kennedy & M. Engbretsen, Eds.). Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543137
  • Sahay, A. (2017). Data visualization. Volume 1, Recent trends and applications using conventional and big data (First edition.). Business Expert Press.