Data Visualization Resources: Data Visualization Tools

Mapping biological pathways and gene expressions

Make new discoveries about the U.S. population by region based on education, income, age, race, etc.

Create maps based on world health and wealth data.

Helps you to organize and share clinical and genomics data. Not technically a data viz tool but can help you collect and analyze data to create data vizzes.

Clean, refine and visualize complex data relatively quickly. Used to be called Data Wrangler and was developed by the Stanford Visualization Group.

Open-source software that allows you to clean, refine and transform large sets of data. Formerly known as Google Refine but no longer supported by Google.

ArcGIS is a powerful and widely-used mapping software program. It is available at the TECH Center (https://its.temple.edu/tech-center-software) on main campus and in certain other labs and schools. For more info see here: https://its.temple.edu/esri-site-licensed-software.

A tool for creating map visualizations with geospatial data.

Create and share interactive data visualizations (e.g. charts, graphs, maps) for the web.
Two versions. Tableau Public (free version) and Tableau Desktop. Both let you create and share interactive data visualizations (e.g. charts, graphs, maps) for the web, however, Tableau Desktop incorporates all the features of the Public interface plus connecting to a wider range of data sources and saving work locally. Temple has a Tableau server that you can use if your department or school has an account. For more information see this site: http://sites.temple.edu/Tableau, and contact tableau@temple.edu.

Open source data visualization tool

Word cloud data visualization tool text can be pasted in, uploaded or a web address can be added.

Word cloud data visualization tool text can be pasted in, uploaded or a web address can be added.

R is an open-source language for statistics and visualization.