Additional Resources

Tableau

• Tableau Software Website - Free tutorial videos
• Tableau Public Website - Free download of Tableau Public, gallery of example visualizations

Python

• Basic introduction to Python: https://www.learnpython.org/
• DC Based free Python classes for Women: Hear me code
  • https://hearmecode.com/
• Now for the hard part… how to install a program called Anaconda to use python on your computer: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=install+anaconda
• Alternatively, you can use a command-line program (like PowerShell for a Windows computer or Terminal for a Mac) and a text editor (like https://www.sublimetext.com/3) to make python programs, but a Jupyter notebook (which comes with Anaconda) is a more user-friendly way of experimenting with code.
• Bokeh references: http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/

D3

• Intro to HTML and JavaScript: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
• Intro to D3: https://square.github.io/intro-to-d3/

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​R

• How to download R and RStudio: https://youtu.be/d-u_7vdag-0
• GGPlot2 references: http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/
  
  

Other

• Course on using JavaScript for graphic design: http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/​

Data Visualization Resources

• Trending on social media
• @mbostock Mike Bostock, creator of D3
• @Milr0c Miles McCrocklin, Data at Facebook
• @DataToViz Susie Lu, Data at Netflix
• @ReubenFB Reuben Fischer-Baum, Data at Washington Post