General references
AAAS Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009
Adobe Flash animation tutorial
Cleveland, William S., Visualizing Data Hobart Press, 1993
Adobe Photoshop
Biointeractive animations
Cimons, Marlene, "Cover Calculations," HHMI Bulletin, June 2002
Johnsen, John, The Cultural Significance of Color, American Chronicle
Kyrnin, Jennifer, Color Symbolism Chart by Culture, About.com
Exploration magazine
Few, Stephen Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Analytics Press 2004
Meredith, Dennis, "Using Multimedia to Advance Your Work" (Sidecast), AAAS meeting, February 21, 2010
NSF
Tufte, Edward, Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Press, 2006
Tufte, Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition, Graphics Press, 2001
The Why Files
Zuker, Charles, et al, "Mammalian Sweet Taste Receptor," Cell, August 10, 2001

Tools and techniques for creating data visualizations

• Atkinson, Cliff, Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, Microsoft Press, 2007
• Chartle.net for producing online charts
• Exploratree site for creating visual "thinking guides"
• Extreme Presentation Method for designing visualizations of information
• Factual site for uploading, creating, and/or embedding data tables
  
• Flowing Data, "What Visualization Tool/Software Should You Use? — Getting Started," September 3, 2009
• Friedman, Vitali, "Data Visualization:Modern Approaches," Smashing Magazine, August 2, 2007
  
• Google Visualizations tools for creating Web visualizations
• Lovely Charts, free Web-based tool for creating diagrams, flow charts and organizational charts
  
• ManyEyes collections of data visualizations
• Microcharts, Excel add-in for creating sparklines
• Sparklines, open source software for creating sparklines
  
• UUorld tool for visualizing data with maps
• Visualization Tools/Applications collection
• Youblisher makes pdf documents flippable and quickly loading