Collection of the resources about the generic visualization techniques, examples, tools that I personally like and found worth checking and seeing at least once.

Visualization techniques and best practices

• The Data Visualization Catalog
  • http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/index.html

• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

  • http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

• A Tour through the Visualization Zoo

  • http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1805128
• A Visual Survey of Text Visualization Techniques
  • http://textvis.lnu.se/
• "DATA + DESIGN" (Intro to preparing and visualizing information)
  • https://infoactive.co/data-design/titlepage01.html

Example of the visualizations

• 15 Data Visualizations That Will Blow Your Mind
  • http://blog.udacity.com/2015/01/15-data-visualizations-will-blow-mind.html
• Data Looks Better Naked
  • http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/
• Selected Data Visualization
  • http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
• Interpreting Confidence Intervals (interactive)
  • http://rpsychologist.com/d3/CI/

Tools for visualization

• FnordMetric, from SQL to SVG
  • http://fnordmetric.io/examples/

UPD (11.01.2016)

• Big Data Visualization: Review of the 20 Best Tools many thanks to Edoardo L'Astorina for sharing this interesting review with me.