LibGuides: Finding Data: Other Resources

Data Viz tools

Use this guide to help you find aggregated data to help create something, tell a story, or inform your research. Below are some free, online tools that help in that pursuit.

Lists of Tools

Digital Scholar Lab This link opens in a new window
Explore your institution's holdings from Gale Primary Sources using Digital Humanities tools. Rediscover and interpret the past through analysis and visualization of historical texts.

Visualizing Data Resources
List of tools grouped by categories like data handling, programming, web-based, mapping, and more.
FSU Periodic Table of Digital Research Tools
From FSU Libraries, "This periodic table can help you find the perfect tool for displaying, organizing, and disseminating your research. "

Make a Map

StoryMap JS
StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Use maps or "really big images" to highlight places or instances within a larger setting.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Google MyMaps
Create interactive maps on the familiar Google Maps platform.

Publish a story online

Omeka
Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Wordpress
A blogging platform that lets users display media and information in a multitude of stunning presentations. Explore wordpress plugins to take advantage of different options.
Adobe Spark
Create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes with Adobe Spark

Visualize Data

Raw Graphs
RAW Graphs is an open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone. Skill level: beginner
Tableau Public
Interactive data visualization tool that allows users to create dynamic charts and graphs without prior exposure to coding. Skill level: intermediate
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Skill level: advanced

Analyze Text

Voyant Tools
Create word clouds, frequency analyses, and more.
ThingLink
Annotate video and images (or "texts") with links, other media, or text.
Juxta
Juxta is an open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Originally designed to aid scholars and editors examine the history of a text from manuscript to print versions, Juxta offers a number of possibilities for humanities computing and textual scholarship.
HathiTrust+bookworm
Search for trends in millions of volumes at http://hathitrust.org

Create a Timeline

TimelineJS
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
Tiki-Toki
Create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web.
Timegraphics
Timegraphics is an online tool that can be used to create timelines. It is free to use to create public timelines, and accepts Google log-ins.

How to cite data

How to cite data, from ICPSR:

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/citations.html