Data Visualization

This tool allows the user to create custom maps using data from the U.S. Census. Datasets date primarily from 2005-present. This tool requires Java to run, and will only run in Internet Explorer or Firefox when pop-ups are enabled.

Allows users to upload Excel data into a Google Maps template. Spreadsheets cannot exceed 2,000 rows.

Mapbox allows the user to create custom-designed maps using demographic and spatial data. This open-source tool requires you to download software to your desktop.

Create maps using Census data and a variety of other types of included survey data.

Create custom-designed maps using demographic data. StatPlanet includes software that must be downloaded to your desktop and requires the use of Microsoft Excel.

Neatline is a "geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create complex maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines... Neatline lets you make hand-crafted, interactive stories as interpretive expressions of a single document or a whole archival or cultural heritage collection."

StoryMaps allows the user to create "custom maps to enhance [their] digital storytelling."

An interactive timeline creation tool for in-browser viewing. With the free account, you can create a single timeline, limited to a maximum of 200 events.

A freely-available, interactive timeline creation tool. Timeline JS requires the use of Google Sheets.