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From data collection to design, this roundup of resources is designed to make it easy for anyone to get started with data storytelling.
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Helpful Tools List To Gather Ideas, Designing Content & More…
Courtesy:The article is originally posted at hubspot’s blog. • In this PPT, we will provide list of tools that will help you to – • Find compelling, accurate data. • Eye-catching visualization design. • Targeted audience and their interests. • And lots more…
Tools for Generating Ideas: • Portent’s Content Idea Generator: Are you looking for eye-catching headline? You must try this! When we entered the word “data,” this happened: “Folk Remedies for Improving Your Life Using Only Data.” • HubSpot's Blog Topic Generator: Insert few germane nouns in tool to generate a lots of topic ideas which you can use in your blog, article, project and more. • Cubeyou: Customer Discovery and Exploration made simple with Cubeyou's Customer Insights Software.
Tools for Collecting Your Own Data: • Google Analytics: Web analytics and reporting. • Crazy Egg: Find out how people are clicking and scrolling through your website. • Qualaroo: Behavior insight surveys for better A/B testing. • App Annie: Mobile app ranking, analytics, market intelligence. • SurveyMonkey: Ask a broad range of people any question you want. • Import.io: Web data platform and free web-scraping tool that turns web pages into data.
Tools for Finding Public Data: • UNData: The United Nation’s statistical database covering issues • Pew Research: Public opinion polls, demographic research, media studies, social and political trends. • The Data Hub: The easy way to get, use and share data. • Google Scholar: Books, studies, whitepapers, theses, abstracts and court cases are all easily searchable. • Google Finance: Real-time stock market data. • Google Public Data Explorer: Datasets on worldwide economic development, human development, and global competitiveness. • The World Factbook: Information on people, places, history, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, and military. • Social Mention: Real-time social data with sentiment analysis. • Amazon Public Data Sets: A repository of public data sets that can be integrated with AWS cloud-based applications. • r/datasets: A subreddit of datasets for data mining and analytics.
Tools for Color Schemes: • Coolors.co: Fast color scheme generator that is very hip. • Kuler by Adobe: Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations. • Pictaculous: Upload a photo to turn up recommendations for colors to use, including their HEX codes.
Tools for Supporting Graphics: • The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists. Some icons are free and require attribution and some are available for a fee. • Graphicstock: More than 300,000 graphics, photos and illustrations, royalty-free. • Picmonkey: Freemium and premium accounts come with access to fun, current graphics.
Tools for Background Images: • TheStocks.im: Royalty-free stock photos in one place. • Unsplash: Royalty-free high-resolution photos that are absolutely beautiful and thought-provoking. • Free Range Stock: “Good photos, totally free” says it all. • IM Free: Curated collections of free photos available for commercial use. • Negative Space: 20 new free stock photos every week. • Death to the Stock Photo: Submit your email to receive a fresh serving of photos to your inbox, monthly.
Tools for Typography: • Typogui.de: A fun version of “Typography 101” for non-designers. • Dafont: Downloadable fonts, some of which are free, though most require fees for commercial use. • Google Fonts: A directory of downloadable, open source web fonts. • Font Squirrel: Hand-selected typefaces presented in an easy-to-use format. • Tiff: Can't decide between two fonts? Compare and contrast different fonts using this tool. • WhatFont: Quickly identify fonts on a specific web page in just one click so you can use them for your own project.
All-in-One Tools: • Visage.co: Allows you to create high quality visual data stories efficiently, and at scale. When you need to create a lot of visual content, it’s an excellent option. • Silk.co: A place to publish data and create interactive visualizations with their tools. • Alteryx: A tool that does data preparation, analytics, reporting, and spatial design for you.
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