Design a visualization (~60 minutes)
There are quite a few tools out there for exploring data. Spend the remainder of class playing with one or two of them. All of them have some interesting sample data sets.
- Tableau Public: Arguably the hottest of the products on this list - In addition to being difficult to spell, Tableau makes it easy to make dashboards in an Excel like interface
- Google Public Datasets Explorer: Limited to a few visualization techniques, but they have a ton of datasets to play with.
- Google Fusion Tables: Google Spreadsheets on steroids (with features like geocoding and some nifty interfaces)
- Mirador by Fathom: A tool that is primarily for exploring datasets.
- CartoDB: An easy(ish) interface that lets you build beautiful data-driven maps.
- Parallel Coordinates: A simple tool that lets you upload a CSV file and visualize it using a neat technique