Selecting Visuals

Chart Suggestions – A Thought Starter
The page includes a flowchart designed to help you choose appropriate visuals.

The Data Visualisation Catalogue
This is a great resource that provides information about the different types of visualizations.

Color

Adobe Color
Create a color palette and use accessibility tools to test whether colors are color-blind safe and contrast is appropriate.

Colblindor
A color blindness simulator.

COLORBREWER 2.0
“color advice for cartography” (that is useful for more than maps)

Color Codes
“Get HTML color codes, Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values with our color picker, color chart and HTML color names.”

Chroma.js Color Palette Helper
Enter two or more colors to use to create a sequential or divergent color palette.

RGB to HEX Color Converter

RGB Color Gradient Maker
“Create a gradient (gradual color change) between 2 RGB colors.”

Sim Daltonism
Color blindness simulator app for iOS and Mac.

Inspiration

Eager Eyes
“Visualization and Visual Communication: What’s happening in information visualization? Robert Kosara digests new and emerging developments and explores what we know and don’t know – so we can be less wrong about visualization.”

Edward Tufte and Graphic Press

FiveThiryEight

Flowing Data

The Functional Art
“Alberto Cairo’s…weblog about information design and visualization.”

The Guardian Data Blog

HelpMeViz
“Join the dataviz community in helping improve our visualizations. Respond to requests for help or post your own work-in-progress infographic for feedback.”

Information is Beautiful
“Founded by David McCandless, author of two bestselling infographics books, Information is Beautiful is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world.”

Make a Powerful Point

Math Easel
“new ways to calculate”

Paletton
A color scheme designer.

Perceptual Edge
“for enlightening analysis and communication”

Power BI Community: Data Stories Gallery

Tableau Gallery: Viz of the Day

Visualising Data

VizWiz