Digital Projects Lab

Data, GIS, and Digital Projects at Kennedy Library

Data & Visualization Tools

Data Wrangler
Powerful tool to transform spreadsheet data into relational format.
Open Refine
OpenRefine is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another

Tableau
Powerful and flexible data visualization software. Create and share interactive visualizations on the web.
Google Data Studio
Create and share interactive visualizations and dashboards online with this free, easy and flexible tool from Google.
Microsoft Power BI
Go from data to insights in minutes, with this business intelligence tool from Microsoft.

Data Wrapper
Easily create beautiful charts to share online.
Plotly Chart Studio
Create sophisticated charts using D3 and WebGL, with no coding required.
Raw Graphs
The missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization. Great for creating vector graphics.

Timeline Storyteller
An open-source expressive visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines.
Timeline JS
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables you to build visually-rich interactive timelines
Flourish Data Visualization
Powerful, beautiful, easy data visualisation.
Gephi
Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

A powerful web-based GIS platform for mapping and spatial analysis. See example Story Maps at ArcGIS.com.

Easily create and share dynamic interactive web maps.

Learn More about GIS and mapping resources at Cal Poly

RStudio
RStudio IDE is a powerful and productive user interface for R. It’s free and open source, and works great on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks a rich architecture for interactive computing with:
Powerful interactive shells, browser-based notebook interactive data visualization, and easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing.
Beaker Notebook
Beaker is a code notebook that allows you to analyze, visualize, and document data using multiple programming languages including Python, R, Groovy, Julia, and Node.
Data Science Toolkit
A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces.
GitHub Student Pack
Software development tools, made available to students through GitHub Education.

A visual guide to chart types, with links to the tools available to construct different visualization types.

The Visualizing Data Blog curated list of resources for working with and visualizing data.