Data Visualization

A freely-available, interactive timeline creation tool. Timeline JS requires the use of Google Sheets.

Freely-available online generator for diagrams, flowcharts or schematics.

Google-based collaborative flowchart and diagram creator. Diagrams can be saved to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, flash drives, or published on the web.

This freely-available tool allows you to create your own concept maps.

Create customized data maps by uploading data from Excel spreadsheets. All maps are published and shared in an online community.

Create maps using Census data and a variety of other types of included survey data.

Create custom designed maps using demographic data. StatPlanet includes software that must be downloaded to your desktop, and requires the use of Microsoft Excel.

This tool allows the user to create custom maps using data from the U.S. Census. Datasets date primarily from 2005-present. This tool requires Java to run, and will only run in Internet Explorer or Firefox when popups are enabled.

Mapbox allows the user to create custom designed maps using demographic and spatial data. This open-source tool requires you to download software to your desktop.

Looking for word clouds? Wordle generates word clouds from the text you provide.

WordArt generates word clouds in custom shapes and designs.

The free, online version of Tableau, a powerful data visualization tool that creates interactive visualizations which can be embedded on a website or shared online. TABLEAU PUBLIC REQUIRES A SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD ONTO YOUR COMPUTER.

Using the power of IBM's supercomputer Watson, this tool performs analysis of large datasets and suggests potential forms of visualization based on the available data.