Blogs, professional groups, organizations and directories

Blogs 

• Gapminder for a fact-based world view (http://www.gapminder.org)
• Information Aesthetics (http://www.infosthetics.com/)
• Flowing data (http://flowingdata.com/) 
• insideBIGDATA (https://insidebigdata.com/) 
• DataScience 101 (https://101.datascience.community/)
• Data Science Report (http://starbridgepartners.com/data-science-report/) 

Professional groups, organizations and directories

• Data Visualization (http://datavisualization.ch/)
• Think with Google (http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/) 

Tools

• ManyEyes (http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/)
• Flare (http://flare.prefuse.org/tutorial) 
• Spotfire (http://spotfire.tibco.com/)
• Gephi (http://gephi.org/)  

Videos

• Ray Kurzweil: A university of the coming singularity, TED video, 2009
• Hans Gosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals, TED video, 2009 
• Hans Gosling's new insights on poverty, TED video, 2007 
• IBM predictive analytics at Marwell Wildlife, Youtube video, 2010
• Data visualization in journalism, Youtube video, 2010 
• Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity, TED video, 2010 

Books, magazines and journals

Books

• Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2009
• Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1997
• Envisioning Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1990
• Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data, Stephen Few, O'Reilly Media, Inc, 2006

Magazines and Journals 

• Information Visualization Journal (http://ivi.sagepub.com/content/by/year)