Accessibility

• How to make figures that are friendly to colorblind people
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (some, but not all, also apply to printed documents and presentations delivered in person too)

Writing articles and presentations

• The Science of Scientific Writing - advice for writing clearly about science and numerical data
• PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports - Tufte's critique of the typical PowerPoint presentation, excerpted from The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• Beyond Bullet Points - a way of developing PowerPoint presentations that don't fall into the death by a thousand bullets that Tufte lampoons
• slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
• Using Slides Effectively in Communications - a workshop by the author of slide:ology; the slides themselves can be downloaded from that site and are a great example in themselves
• Lisa Lane's online teaching blog
• 7 things you should know about data visualization

Information visualization examples

• Visualization of transportation data and information
• Information Is Beautiful
• Sightline Institute's maps & graphics
• FlowingData
• Design With Intent
• myurbanist
• 7 ways of visualizing the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill
• a huge reference list if you want more: http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/references/references-subjects-covered/data-structuring/data-visualisation-references/

Software tools

• Prezi - the zooming presentation editor
• Cooliris - a very natural, interactive way to display sets of images together
• MindManager - a presentation package that uses the mind map as its underlying structure
• Pivot - a browser for large datasets
• Motion Chart - animated charts to show data changing over time
• paint.net - free image editor for Windows

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