Data Science

• Excel

  Excel is still a commonly used platform for data visualization, especially for those in business, marketing, economics, and finance. Duke University Libraries provides an introduction to the visualization capabilities of Excel.

• RAW Graphs

  RAW Graphs is a free and open source tool for data visualization. an online platform to make data visualizations. Users can select graph type (i.e., scatterplot, bar chart, dendrogram, etc.) based on type of input data (i.e., numeric, categorical).

• Datawrapper

  Datawrapper is a free online platform to create PNG charts, maps, and tables with no coding required. Users include New York Times, Thomson Reuters, Moody's, Spiegel, and World Economic Forum.

• plotly

  Plotly is an entirely web-based interface for making graphics. It does not require any coding knowledge, but can interface with both R and Python. The community version of plotly is free to use.

• Gephi

  Gephi is a free software for visualizing networks, comprised of "nodes" and "edges". "Like Photoshop but for graph data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden patterns." 

• Voyant

  Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

• Canva

  Canva is a an online graphic design platform. There are a variety of templates users can start from, including for infographics.

From the University of Houston, a more detailed list of visualization software/libraries.

Leaflet is an open-source Java script library for making tile-based interactive maps for desktop and mobile browsers.