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A reference of every chart type and what each is genuinely for, worth reading before defaulting to a bar chart.
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The Data Visualisation Catalogue sits in Data Visualisation under Learn, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as useful and clever.
Visual journalism and open data done properly — charts you can interrogate rather than just look at. The argument is in the interaction.
A weekly newsletter of unusual public datasets, with an archive of thousands you had no idea were collected.
The charting tool most newsrooms quietly rely on, free at the sizes any one person will ever need.
Animated bar chart races, scrollytelling and story maps built from a spreadsheet without writing any code.
Nathan Yau's long-running blog on charts done well and badly, plus his own studies of how a day gets spent.
Hans Rosling's animated bubble chart of the world, still the fastest cure for being wrong about global development.
David McCandless's poster-grade infographics on everything from relative drug harms to the meanings of colours.
Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.
Notebooks for building charts in the browser, with a public gallery of thousands you can fork and pull apart.