As part of work I was looking at a problem and came across an amazing set of Data Visualization tools. You may have seen this Data Visualization Talk from couple of years ago.
Data Visualization by GapMinder is a proper tool for analyzing large sets of data.
This video below is dated (2003), but the tool can be used as-is at gapminder.org/tools
The vision of GapMinder is to fight ignorance with a fact based worldview that everyone can understand
Other Tools
Finding the types of charts
- Start off here to learn what Chart Types to use for the situation
- http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/
- http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/Welcome
- http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/07/11-ways-to-visualize-changes-over-time-a-guide/
- http://guides.library.duke.edu/datavis/vis_types
Other Links
- https://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-are-the-best-data-visualizations-ever-created
- https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery
- http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/bright-ideas.php