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Here we list resources for additional studies

D3

• Official D3 Site
• Official D3 Wiki
• D3 API Reference
• D3 Tutorial by Scott Murray (highly recommended! - Required D3 textbook is based on this.)
• D3 on Stack Overflow
• D3.js Google Group
• Mike Bostock's site
• D3.js Gallery
• Mike Bostock on bl.ocks.org
• Jérôme Cukier and Scott Murray's D3 tutorial at the Strata Conference
• D3 For Mere Mortals
• Mike Bostock's D3 Tutorial
• Vadim's Lecture Slides, D3
• Jerome Cukier's D3 Cheat Sheet
• FlowingData D3 Tips
• D3, Conceptually
• D3 Tutorial Videos by Ian Johnson - Vol I
• D3 Tutorial Videos by Ian Johnson - Vol II
• D3 Tips and Tricks
• TopoJson
• D3 Gallery

Web Development

• Enabling Web Developer Extensions in the Browser
• Eloquent Javascript Book
• Mozilla Developer Network — See DevDocs for unified documentation on all web technologies
• Dive Into HTML5 - Homepage
• Dive Into HTML5 - Canvas

Git

• Official git command line and GUI clients, official documentation

Clients

• GitHub Client for Mac
• GitHub Client for Windows
• SourceTree for Mac and Windows
• TortoiseGit for Windows

Tutorials etc.

• Setting up git
• Understanding git conceptually

Exploratory Data Analysis

These tools help you to get an idea about the shape and properties of datasets and let you produce good (standard) plots.

• Online Help

• Quick Start Guides

• Knowledge Base

• Training and Tutorials

• Tableau Public Gallery

• Plot.ly

• Wolfram Mathematica

• Many Eyes

Python

Python is great for data analysis and for data scraping.

• Python

• Enthought Python Distribution

• The Python Tutorial

• Learn Python the Hard Way

• Google's Python Class

• IPython

• The Python Package Index

• SciPy

• NumPy

• Matplotlib

• Pattern - a data scraping library

• Beautiful Soup - the "mother" scraping library

Other Software Toolkits

• Plot.ly

• Wolfram Mathematica

• Harvard-specific Installation Guidelines

• Protovis (JavaScript)

• Prefuse (Java)

• Flare (ActionScript)

• Piccolo (Java / C#)

• Microsoft Vedea

• 25 Tools

• 75+ Tools

• Processing main page

• Learning Processing

• OpenProcessing.org

• Examples by Ben Fry

• Using Processing in Eclipse

Data Sources

• Wolfram Alpha
• Quandl
• Datamob
• Factual
• Metro Boston Data Common
• Census.gov
• Data.gov
• Dataverse Network
• Infochimps
• Linked Data
• Guardian DataBlog
• Data Market
• Reddit Open Data
• Climate Data Sources
• Climate Station Records
• CDC Data
• World Bank Catalog
• Free SVG Maps
• UK Office for National Statistics
• StateMaster

Web Sites & Blogs

• eagereyes
• Gapminder
• Flowing Data
• Perceptual Edge
• Information Aesthetics
• Visual Complexity