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<h2>➡️ Visual</h2>

<h4>Photography and Graphic Design</h4>
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    <a href="https://www.canva.com/">Canva</a> (💵📍): Edit photos, create and design documents. Templates available.
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    <a href="https://www.designbold.com/">DesignBold</a> (💵): Alternative to canva.
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    <a href="https://www.gimp.org/downloads/">Gimp</a> (✨): Image editor.
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</ul>

<h4>Modeling</h4>
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    <a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a> (✨): 3D rendering.
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    <a href="https://inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a> (✨): Vector graphics editor.
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    <a href="https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit">SVG Edit</a> (✨): SVG editor in browswer.
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    <a href="https://unity.com/learn">Unity</a> (💵✨): 3D rendering software. Selectively open source.
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<h4>Charts and Data Visualization</h4>
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    <a href="https://www.datawrapper.de/">Datawrapper</a> (✨💵🧭📍): Easy upload/import system for CSV files. Very user-friendly for non-coders.
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    <a href="https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/">Tableau</a> (💰): Free trial available.
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    <a href="https://infogram.com/">Infogram</a>: Web-based.
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    <a href="https://infogram.com/">HighCharts</a> (📍): Javascript
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    <a href="https://www.highcharts.com/">HighCharts</a> (💰): Free for non-commercial use. Basic Javscript coding required.
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    <a href="https://d3js.org/">D3.js</a> (✨🥨): Javascript library. Lots of customization.
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    <a href="https://www.localfocus.nl/en/">Local Focus</a> (🧭): Can visualize maps and charts. No coding needed.
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    <a href="https://rawgraphs.io/">Raw Graphs</a> (✨🧭): Upload data directly on the web, variety of viz options.
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    <a href="https://charter.zettlr.com/">Zettlr Charter</a> (✨🧭): Open Source alternative to Datawrapper. Allows upload of CSV/TSV files and ad-hoc data curation.
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    <a href="https://flourish.studio/">Flourish</a> (💵): Data visualisation tool, lots of customization, uses D3 as base.
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</ul>

<h4>Mapping</h4>
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    <a href="https://learn.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-book/chapter3/">Story Maps</a> (💰): From ArcGIS.
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    <a href="https://storymap.knightlab.com/">StoryMap JS</a> (✨): Open source version of the one from ArcGIS. No coding required.
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    <a href="https://leafletjs.com/">Leaflet</a> (✨📍): Requires knowledge of Javascript.
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    <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/">MapBox</a> (💵📍): Customizable map. Has edit features for data.
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</ul>

<h4>Miscellaneous</h4>
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    <a href="https://listify.okfnlabs.org/">Listify</a> (✨): Turns spreadsheet into searchable visual list.
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    <a href="http://databin.pudo.org/">Databin</a> (✨): Share tabular data.
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<h4>Resources</h4>
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    <a href="https://davidneat.wordpress.com/methods/visual-research/recommended-websites-for-visual-research-2/">Recommended websites for visual research</a>: By David Neat.
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