Digital Scholarship / Digital Humanities

Tableau Public is a free platform - frequently used in journalism - to explore, create, and publicly embed or share interactive data visualizations online.

Sample projects:

• Hurricane history interactive map
• Visualizing global poverty trends
• Top tax rates interactive map

Piktochart Free is a design tool for creating infographics, reports, presentations, and data visualizations by entering information into pre-established templates.

• Information on data viz options specifically, from the website: "Turn complex data into a clear, catchy visual. Data doesn’t have to be boring, and visualizing data doesn’t have to be complex. Copy-paste your data into our graph maker, upload a CSV, or Excel file, or link up a Google sheet. Turn complex data into a clear data visualization that gets your message across. Choose between charts, graphs, and interactive maps to present your data clearly and understandably."
• Sample infographics on Language

visual.ly combines data and design tools to allow for graphic representations of information.

Sample projects:

• Titanic, for BBC​​​

D3.js

It helps to know some code to make best use of this free tool.  Use it to make dashboards, graphs, maps and other visual representations of data.

Sample projects:

• UNESCO's World Inequality Database on Education