This handout was shared with a group of superintendents, principals, and directors of teaching/learning after they visited the University of Texas Visualization Laboratory in the College of Education. We then led them in an introductory visualization activity with Gapminder.com and encouraged them to share these resources with their high school teachers who might want to integrate data analysis and visualization into their content area activities. Session conducted on Thursday, October 3, 2013

1. Prepared
by
Tom
Benton
tbenton@utexas.edu
October
3,
2013
Classroom
Visualization
Resources
Offline
Applications
MS
Excel
/
Open
Office
Processing.org
–
user-­‐friendly
and
well-­‐supported
version
of
Java
programming
language
built
for
visual
designers
and
artists
Web
Applications
for
Data
Exploration
Gapminder.org
–
interactive
animated
statistics
of
global
development
trends
Google
Public
Data
Explorer
–
interactively
visualize
a
variety
of
publically
available
datasets
Web
Visualization
Environments
for
Your
Data
Google
Charts
API
–
simple
HTML
frameworks
for
creating
many
types
of
visualizations
[code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/]
Google
Fusion
Tables
–
combine
your
data
with
publically
available
data
Manyeyes.com
–
create,
share,
and
browse
data
and
visualizations
iPad
Apps
Stats
of
the
Union
-­‐
national
map
of
data
from
the
Community
Health
Status
Indicators
Report
mem:o
–
creates
artful
graphics
of
everyday
user
data
Topps
Pennant
Baseball
–
50
years
of
baseball
statistics
utilizing
many
creative
visualization
techniques
NASA
Visualization
Explorer
–
visualizations,
animations,
and
images
from
NASA
Research
Stocktouch
–
live
stock
information
using
many
different
visualization
techniques
Blogs
and
Galleries
informationisbeautiful.net
feltron.tumblr.com
visualizing.org
iCharts.net
beautifuldata.tumblr.com
creativeapplications.net
visualisingdata.com
forbes.com/sites/naomirobbins