prefuse - Information Visualization Toolkit by Jeffrey Heer. Technical paper describing it.
Tableau Software There is a free download, and we will have it available in the lab. Quick start guide
TreeMap Java Application. Create your own data (from last year)
Maureen's Flash resources
Anonymized Netflix data consisting of over 100 million movie ratings over 7 years with rating date, film date and title, available to those who register for the Netflix Prize.
WASL data (17MB excel file) Washington State Assessment of Student Learning. Data by year, school, grade, subject, score
World Color Survey Collection of data on color naming throughout the world
Andrew Winter's volume dataset portal -- collection of datasets for volume visualization.
Visualization contest data:
Vis 2004 - Geographic scalar and vector data
Vis 2005 - Diffusion tensor MRI data and Wind-field simulation data
Vis 2006 - Earthquake simulation
InfoVis 2003 - Tree comparison
InfoVis 2004 - Publication history
InfoVis 2005 - Market Data
InfoVis 2006 - Census Data
VAST 2006 - Collection of news stories, photos, maps, etc
John Stasko's Resources page (Georgia Tech)
Melanie Tory's resources page(U Victoria)
Tamara Munzner's resources page (UBC) -- a great collection of software, toolkits, and InfoVis data sets.
Here are some of the courses we looked at when designing the course. Many have student projects online and lists of resources. Most are graduate level courses, except for U Buffalo, UW Winter, and U Victoria (which is a blend of graduates and undergraduates),
iSchools
Computer Science