COLUMN:
INTERNET RESOURCES
Annis Lee Adams
University Libraries, California State University - East Bay, Hayward, CA
VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Sharing data is an important and common endeavor for scholars, students, librarians, and many other professionals. Data can help tell a story, be educational and enlightening, identify gaps as well as strengths, and inform decisions. Creating illustrative and engaging visuals from data and statistics can improve comprehension of what the data represents.
The websites reviewed in this column contain free resources that will help librarians, students, scholars, and others share data in appealing and easy-to-understand visual representations. None require any special skills to utilize. Most allow data to be uploaded and manipulated into a variety of charts, tables, graphs, infographics, word clouds, trees, maps, or other visualizations.
Public Services Quarterly 2026
Our most recent #InternetResources column reviews free web-based #DataVisualization tools for users to quickly transform datasets into charts, maps, infographics, and other visual formats. These are useful to librarians, faculty, and students alike. Read more here:
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