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Home Examples Process Charts Style Tools Resources Feedback Data Visualization Methods for Transportation Agencies Welcome to Vizguide! This website is intended as a resource for transportation professionals who want to use illustrations and visualizations to communicate their ideas to an audience. You might associate visualization with complicated things like interactive animated websites and 3D models of major projects – and you might know how to build those things – but visualizations also include things like bar charts, maps, and even specially formatted text or numbers. Used well, it can make a strong impression. Click on one of the areas below to get started! Examples Need some inspiration? We’ve organized some high-quality and effective visualizations for some of your common tasks, with suggestions on how you can replicate them. Process When you’re making visualizations, do you feel lost? Click on one of the steps below for tips. You can work through the process from beginning-to-end, or you can jump in wherever you are. Charts The most effective visualizations for communicating your message are the ones with which people are familiar. Each of the chart types below include examples, variations, and tips for use. Style Your style may be largely out of your control as you obey your agencies or clients. We’ve curated some tips that apply no matter what, including how to comply with Federal guidelines. Tools A great visualization shouldn’t stay in your head. Here are some of the most common and well-liked tools for creating visualizations at all levels of complexity, including tips and tricks. Resources Still curious about how to proceed with visualizing your story? We’ve accumulated resources for you as you design, build, and implement your vision, in-print or online. Cambridge Systematics, Inc. produced this website and a written report for NCHRP 08-36 Task 128 – Data Visualization Methods for Transportation Agencies. We will maintain the website until July of 2017. Examples Need some inspiration? We’ve organized some high-quality and effective visualizations for some of your common tasks, with suggestions on how you can replicate them. Asset Management Connectivity, Accessibility, and Livability Environmental Transit Highway Mobility Performance Based Planning Freight Safety Socioeconomic Pedestrian and Bicycle Process When you’re making visualizations, do you feel lost? Click on one of the steps below for tips. You can work through the process from beginning-to-end, or you can jump in wherever you are. Data Wrangling Intent and Audience Analysis Choosing a Strategy Style Guide Tools and Implementation Charts The most effective visualizations for communicating your message are the ones with which people are familiar. Each of the chart types below include examples, variations, and tips for use. Geographic Maps Bar Charts Line Graphs Pie Charts Flow Charts Heat Maps Scatterplots Pictograms Treemaps Node-Link Diagrams Style Your style may be largely out of your control as you obey your agencies or clients. We’ve curated some tips that apply no matter what, including how to comply with Federal guidelines. Basic Design Principles Font Color Federal Requirements (508 Compliance) Tools A great visualization shouldn’t stay in your head. Here are some of the most common and well-liked tools for creating visualizations at all levels of complexity, including tips and tricks. Microsoft Tableau ESRI R D3 Adobe Qlik QGIS Trifacta Google Resources Still curious about how to proceed with visualizing your story? We’ve accumulated resources for you as you design, build, and implement your vision, in-print or online. View the Full report Publicly Available Foundational Data US Census and American Community Survey National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Publicly Available Modal Data Bureau of Transportation Statistics FHWA Highway Statistics (HPMS) FAA Traffic Data for Airport Passengers and Cargo Amtrak State Fact Sheets (annual ridership by station) Publicly Available GIS Data US Census GIS Data US Geological Survey GIS Data State-Specific Data by State (from the University of Maryland) Data Scraping import.io Interactive visualizations that you should use today US Cluster Mapping Project Walk Score AARP Livability Index The Growing Distance Between People and Jobs in Metropolitan America Access to Jobs and Workers Via Transit Where are the big polluters since 1971? Global Carbon Atlas Access to Jobs and Workers Via Transit GEDVIZ Brookings Metro Area Freight Series Census Flow Mapper OnTheMap Mapping America’s Future Blogs and Websites Flowing Data, Nathan Yau Information Aesthetics, Andrew Vande Moere Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima Visual Business Intelligence, Stephen Few Information is Beautiful, David McCandless Storytelling with Data, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Data Analysis + Visualization, Ann K Emery EvergreenData PolicyViz, Jonathan Schwabish The Data Visualization Catalog Visualization Design Resources, collected by Matt Brehmer Videos and Podcasts and Courses Data Stories: a podcast on data visualization by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner OpenViz 2015 videos. More than 20 videos on a wide variety of data vis topics Design Lab, University of Wisconsin Creating Data Visualisation on Adobe Illustrator New York University’s Data Journalism class outline, taught by Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy, editors of the New York Time’s Upshot (good links to resources in each class page), visited 23 Mar 2016 Reading list from Jeff Heer’s University of Washington Datavis class, visited 14 Mar 2016 Books Stephen Few: Show Me the Numbers David Nelson, Bradford Hesse, and Robert Croyle: Making Data Talk: Communicating Public Health Data to the Public, Policy Makers, and the Press Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte: Envisioning Informatio n Edward Tufte: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Nathan Yau: Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Tamara Munzner: Visualization Analysis and Design Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic: Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals Incomplete list of lists of visualization tools datavisualization.ch Design and Code Tools This web site and its contents were developed by Cambridge Systematics, Inc.; NCHRP makes no representation or warranty of any kind (see disclaimer). 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