Data Visualization Resources
You can find an incomplete and in-progress list of data visualization resources here. These will be useful for deciding on talk topics and project datasets. I recommend you start with the general resources, which have their own lists of datasets, tools, blogs, galleries, and so on.
General Resources
Datasets
Software, Libraries, and Other Tools
Blogs
Chartable
Datawrapper
EagerEyes
Robert Kosara
FlowingData
Nathan Yau
Jim Vallandingham
Jim Vallandingham
Multiple Views: Visualization Research Explained
Editors: Jessica Hullman, Danielle Szafir, Robert Kosara, and Enrico Bertini
TULP Interactive
Jan Willem Tulp
Visualising Data
Andy Kirk
Books
D3.js in Action
Elijah Meeks
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Scott Murray
Research Labs
Interactive Data Lab
University of Washington
Urban Data Visualization Lab
University of Illinois at Chicago
Visualization & Interface Design and Innovation (VIDI)
University of California, Davis
Visualization Design Lab
University of Utah
Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis Center
New York University
Visualization Lab
Georgia Tech
Academic Conferences
Other Conferences
Tutorials and Guides
Articles and Papers
A tour through the visualization zoo
Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky, May 2010
How to Read a Visualization Research Paper: Extracting the Essentials
Robert S. Laramee, Apr 2011
Data visualization, fast and slow
Elijah Meeks, May 2018
An alternative to pink & blue: Colors for gender data
Lisa Charlotte Rost, Jul 2018
The list of 2018 visualization lists
Maarten Lambrechts, Dec 2018
Design Groups
Freelancers, Consultants, Practitioners
Random Examples
How Birth Year Influences Political Views
Amanda Cox, The Upshot; The New York Times, Jul 2014
Miseducation: Is there racial inequality at your school?
Lena V. Groeger, Annie Waldman and David Eads, ProPublica, Oct 2018
Nearly 10,000 companies contract with shutdown-affected agencies, putting $200 million a week at risk
By Ted Mellnik and Aaron Gregg; Graphics by Kate Rabinowitz and Lauren Tierney, The Washington Post, Jan 2019
Mistakes, We've Drawn a Few
Sarah Leo, The Economist, Mar 2019