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You can view resources in the following subject areas: good practise in presenting quantitative data, geography specific resources, performance reporting specific links, SVG specific resources, metadata specific links, general publications and specific publications.

Good practise in presenting quantitative data:

http://www.edwardtufte.com
An internationally acknowledged guru in this field with several publications on the subject - his web site has some very useful and interesting discussions.

http://www.plainfigures.com
Specialist UK consultancy for delivering statistics in an understandable form - valuable resources list too.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/concepts/index.htm
A great general resource on all matters statistical and geographical.

http://www.regionalobservatories.org.uk/displaying_statistics_event.html
Link to a series of papers (including our own) on this subject, with a slant towards geographic data.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about_ns/cop/downloads/datapresentation.pdf
The UK National Statsitics Code of Practice on Protocol on Data Presentation, Dissemnation and Pricing.

http://www.sbtc.ltd.uk/notes/PresentingStatistics.pdf
A free general paper on presenting statistics from a consultancy working in this area.

http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/~unwin/AntonyArts/VisTechNTTS.html
General paper on visualisation techniques for statistics - useful references.

http://www.surfingwithed.org.uk/
A UK-based specialist, Ed Swires-Hennessy runs his own very useful web site with lots of valuable free information.

http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/
Michael Friendly's review of what's good and what's bad, Statistical Consulting Service and Psychology Department, York University.

http://jasp.ism.ac.jp/~nakanoj/visworkshop.html
Workshop summary on statistical visualisation.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny.html
Prof Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield.

http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/~dcarr/
Professor Dan Carr, George Mason University.

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/graphics.html
Useful list of references for graphical visualisation techniques.

http://www.agocg.ac.uk/visual.htm
Advisory group on computer graphics.

Geography specific resources:

http://colorbrewer.org/
Useful site to help you define suitable colour schemes for your mapping applications.

http://designorati.com/cartography/news-13/2005/choropleth-mapping-in-the-news/
A general introduction article on choropleth maps.

Performance Reporting specific links:

http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/9900272.pdf
UK National Audit Office report on good practice in performance reporting.

SVG specific links:

http://www.adobe.com/svg/community/external.html
Adobe SVG External Sites Reference list.

http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/links/
SVG and Mapping Sites.

Metadata specific links:

http://www.unece.org/stats/publications/metadata.pdf
International guidelines for statistical metadata on the Internet.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI/index.html
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) for Social Sciences data.

http://dublincore.org
International Dublin Core metadata standard.

http://www.sdmx.org
International initiative for statistical data and metadata exchange.

http://www.govtalk.gov.uk
IUK Government eGMS metadata standard.

In terms of book references we would recommend many of the publications by:-

  • Edward Tufte
  • William S. Cleveland
  • Naomi Robbins

More specific publications include:

  • Plain Figures (Second Edition) by Myra Chapman and Cathy Wykes (UK HMSO)
  • The Grammar of Graphics (Hardcover) by Leland Wilkinson
  • Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures by Howard Wainer
  • Elements of Graph Design by Stephen M. Kosslyn
  • Information Graphics : A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert L. Harris
  • Information Visualization, Second Edition : Perception for Design by Colin Ware
  • Performance Dashboards by Wayne W. Eckerson