Design resources for Atlas in a Day

Inspiration for the day

Migration Viz Examples

• Flowing Data migration tag
• A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration
• peoplemovin
• 10 of the coolest migration visualizations

Choosing the Right Chart

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization
• Choosing the Right Chart for Your Data
• 11 Ways to Visualize Changes over Time- A Guide

Creating a Chart

• One Chart, Twelve Tools
• One Chart, Nine Tools (revisited)
• RAW graphs
• Tableau Public

Collections of Design Advice

• Axis Maps Cartography Guide
• Gretchen Peterson's For the Love of Cartography
• How to Build a Data Narrative
• Digital Infographics from El Mercurio
• How Designers Do It: 15 Easy Steps to Design an Infographic from Scratch

Meaningful Color Choice

• An Alternative to Pink & Blue: Colors for Gender Data
• Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualization
• What to Consider When Choosing Colors for Data Visualization
• coolors.co
• Adobe Color
• Design Seeds
• 50 Gorgeous Color Schemes
• ColorBrewer
• Chroma.js Color Palette Helper
• CARTOColors

Typography

• Canva Font Design
• Cartographers' Preferred Typefaces
• Labeling and Text Hierarchy in Cartography
• Creative Bloq Choosing the Right Typeface
• Public Sans
• Font Forestry freebies
• 27 Beautiful Free Fonts
• 50 Free Stylish Fonts
• Google fonts

Finding Data

• Google dataset search
• Awesome Public Datasets
• Fivethirtyeight Data
• NYT Open
• Data USA
• Kaggle Datasets

Using QGIS

• QGIS 2.18 User Manual
• QGIS 3.4 User Manual
• QGIS 3 Tutorials and Tips
• GIS@Tufts QGIS Tutorials and Tip Sheets

Using R for GIS

• Geocomputation with R
• [blog post] New York Times-style Urban Heat Maps
• [blog post] Bivariate Maps with ggplot2 and sf
• [blog post] Beautiful Thematic Maps with ggplot2 (only)
• cartography package
• r-color-palettes

Past Examples from Guerrilla Cartography

The links on this site are not meant to be complete. They're just the ones I find myself using most often. Please submit a GitHub issue if you think there's something I'm missing.