30 Great Visualization Resources in 30 Days

A lot of the applications that Juice creates are designed to make information more accessible to people who wouldn't consider themselves to be data experts. They realize the value in the data that they have, and in many cases they have some sort of analytics solution in place, but they know they're not getting as much value from their data as they should.

One of the hurdles we frequently come up against is that people who aren't actively participating in the visualization discussion don't know what's possible. All they've ever seen, in many cases, are the confusing dashboards, charts, and graphs that are all too prevalent from the vendors in our space. You know the ones: a thick layer of technology slathered with some gloss and wiggle, between two slices of "do it yourself".

In many cases, we find ourselves closing this gap by referring to some of the best examples of work out there. As we were thinking about this, the idea to provide a simple walk through of these examples came into being. The result: a 30 day calendar chocked full of some of the best samples of skills enhancing examples we could find.

30 Days to Better Visualization

Each day is a bite sized chunk and takes only a few minutes to watch, read, do, or play. Some of the days are comprised of Juice content, but most days are from other sources that we've found useful.

You can download it to use yourself, or to share with your friends who need to expand their info-viz horizons. Either way, we think it'll get your creative juices flowing.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. All source code is released under a BSD License unless otherwise specified.

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July 8, 2010
Chris said:

Thanks for putting this together, nicely done. Just curious, do you have any other examples of guides that use a similar format? I posted the link and wrote a couple of paragraphs about it on my blog at http://freshspectrum.com


July 10, 2010
paresh said:

Apart from spreading this to people who are already initiated into the world of data visualization, guys reading the data visualization blogs, we should also spread it to others who may only be peripherally aware of this field. Doing my bit - spreading it among finance and accounting professionals [Linkedin Group].


July 12, 2010
Ken said:

@Paresh - Yes! Thanks for helping others "see."


July 18, 2010
Nemo said:

Thanks, but why are you giving URLs in a PDF document and not a simple web page ? (pdf viewers are not web browsers, and your links in Acrobat reader on my Mac are not clikables !).


August 6, 2010
James said:

and for some tardy responses,
@Chris - Glad you found it helpful for you and your readers. I'm curious myself if there are other materials presented this way! If you find any, do share. It was simply my effort in always reevaluating how we present information.

@Nemo - The links should be working on the latest version of Adobe Reader (9.3.3) from www.adobe.com

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