Links People Name Description Twitter Prof. Stephen Boyd Davis My supervisor and Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art (blog – Chronographics) @stepbd Florian Kräutli Another student of Prof. Stephen Boyd Davis, nearing completion of his PhD (blog – YYYY/MM/DD) @fkraeutli Mike Bostok Creator of D3.js, a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data @mbostock Edward Tufte Possibly the most influential person in the data visualisation community, produced seminal and influential books including "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and "Beautiful Evidence" @EdwardTufte Alberto Cairo Data journalist and author of "The Functional Art" @albertocairo Scott Murray Software artist and educator, writer of Interactive Data Visualisation for the Web @alignedleft David McCandless Author, data-journalist, competetive Doom player, and information designer\. Writer of "Information is Beautiful" and its accompanying website @mccandelish Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg Producers of influential data art and now part of Google's data visualization research group @viegasf @wattenberg Michael Friendly Manuel Lima flowingdata.com D3 Resources Site Description D3.js JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data Aligned Left D3 tutorials by Scott Murray Interactive Data Visualisation for the Web Book and free interactive D3 tutorials by Scott Murray bl.ocks bl.ocksplorer.org blockbuilder.org Tributary.io (and a good video introducing it) Jsfiddle.net Techslides Big list of D3 Examples Tools Tool Description Sublime text Notepad++ R and R Studio (and a useful free course) Data Wrangler Data Sources Source Description Awesome Public Datasets Compilation of public data sources published to GitHub by user caesar0301 Discovery Catalogue of record descriptions for The National Archives and other UK based archives