LibGuides: Data Sources: Data Tools

Visualize It!

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information" (wikipedia).

Creatly
Creately is a ‘diagramming’ tool, which can help you to wireframe an infographic before putting it into production. It includes a new real-time collaboration feature, allowing you to work on a design with a colleague or client simultaneously.
Story Map
StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
Tableau Public
Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data to the web. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it, or create their own visualizations of it. No programming skills are required. Be sure to look at the gallery to see some of the things people have been doing with it.
Time Line JS
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
visual.ly
If you are in need of an infographic rather than a data visualisation, there is a new crop of tools out there to help. Visual.ly is probably the most popular of these. Although primarily an online marketplace for infographic designers, its Create option lets you pick a template, connect it to your Facebook or Twitter account and get some nice cartoon graphics back.
Voyant
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

Analysis Software

We recommend the following software for those working with data:

For making tables and graphs

Excel (available on public computers, Windows and Macintosh)

For statistical analyses

SPSS (available on all public computers, Windows and Macintosh)
Stata (available on all public computers, Windows)
JASP (open source alternative to SPSS)

For mapping

ArcGIS (available on all public computers, Windows)

Qualitative software

Atlas.ti (available in the B-Level computer labs in the LITC)