AMS 370- Art and Data in the Digital Age (Iván Chaar López)

There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can be daunting finding the right visual for your data, especially for those just starting out. The Data Viz Project by ferdio is a work-in-progress catalog that aims to make the picking process a bit easier. Start with a bunch of chart types and filter by things like shape, purpose, and data format. If you’re stuck, this should help get the juices going.

We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though. Data comes from the realities. Here are several guides to help with visualizing these realities, which seem especially important these days.

List of Digital Humanities mapping tools and related readings.

An interdisciplinary data repository hosting datasets from researchers at Texas colleges and universities.

A weekly newsletter of interesting datasets curated by Jeremy Singer-Vine. You can also view the spreadsheet of past datasets, going back to 2015. Topics covered include demographics, government data, culture, and more.

The home of the US government's open data.

Google's dataset search tool. Searches open and licensed data. Some licensed data may be available via UT Libraries.

Open data from the City of Austin

Search over 2,500 disciplinary research data repositories. You can browse by subject to find data repositories related to your area of interest.

DataCite is a global non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data and other research outputs. Limit searches by "Resource type > Dataset.