Week 1

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Week 2

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Chapters 4 through 9

Books

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R Tufte
Amazon
Tufte’s fantastic first book on information design. Focuses on designing clear, effective data graphics.

Visualize This
Nathan Yau
Amazon
Broad introductory text to the field of data visualization. Includes info on public data sources, popular visualization tools, and visualization design.

Getting Started with Processing
Ben Fry and Casey Reas
Amazon
Introduction to using the Processing programming language.

Visualizing Data
Ben Fry
Amazon
Technical reference covers topics related to creating visualizations with the Processing programming language.

Visual Complexity
Manuel Lima
Amazon
Data design collection.

Data Flow
Gilles Berton
Amazon
Data design collection.

200% of Nothing
A. K. Dewdney
Amazon
A look at common ways math and statistics are misused and abused.

Online

Visualizing Algorithms
Mike Bostock
Online
Fantastic illustrated essay from the creator of D3.

Reddit / Data is Beautiful
Online
Forum for sharing and discussing data visualizations.

Infosthetics
Online
Data visualiztion blog.