| Tool | What can I use this for? | Training/Support materials? | License type |
| D3js (javascript library) and Observable | Free, open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data.
Own dataviz platform, Observable notebooks, for plug-and-play coding options (freemium version only suitable for publicly available data). |
D3 ‘getting started’ guide, further resources on Observable include Tutorials, documentation as well as community resources and blog | D3js: Free/OpenSource
Observable: freemium (tiered subscription model allows private notebooks and extended functionality). |
| DataWrapper | No-code visualization of quantitative data (charts, maps and tables) based on Python pandas library. | Freemium version with high functionality (tiered subscription model with extended functionality) | |
| Gephi | Visualization and exploration of graphs and networks. | Tutorials and User Guides here | Free/OpenSource |
| Timeline.js | Open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. | Technical Information here | Open source |
| NodeGoat | Data modelling, creation and exploration, visualisation/publishing. Designed for humanities research with emphasis on geographical and chronological mapping and working with sources. | Guides and how-tos here. Documentation here. | Free/OpenSource web app. Creation of free account required. |
| OpenRefine | Cleaning messy data (such as textual data), linking web services and other datasets. | User manual here. Support via community forum here. | Free/OpenSource. |
| Orange | Analyze and visualize datasets, including network analysis, text mining and natural language processing. No coding required: Graphical User Interface (GUI) with drag-and-drop toolkit. | Documentation here. Tutorials and how-to guides here, troubleshooting via StackExchange community. | Free/OpenSource. |
| Palladio | Data modelling, creation and exploration, visualization/publishing. Designed for humanities research with emphasis on geographical and chronological mapping and working with sources. | Tutorials and FAQs here. Submit bugs/issues on GitHub here. | Free/OpenSource web app. |
| RAWGraphs | Visualization of quantitative data. Use in-browser using web-app, or host on GitHub. | Tutorials and FAQ. | Free/OpenSource |
| Tableau | Visualization of quantitative data. Tableau Public (free) for open datasets. |
Instructor Resource Page (tableau.com) (includes ‘getting started’ guides) |
Tableau: Free education licenses available (1 year, renewable). Request here: Tableau for Teaching.
Free tool for open datasets: Tableau Public |
| Plotly/Dash | Low code library in Python for visualization. | Dash Library | Open Source |