GENERAL VISUALIZATION:

Visual.ly
Information is Beautiful
VisWorld
Visual Complexity
Interaction Design Foundation
Data Innovation.org
Flowing Data
The Daily Viz
Visualization Network
OpenVis Conference
UXmag
Creative Applications Network
Eyeo Festival
Periodic Table of Visualization Elements
3D VizWorld
Voyant (Text Viz Tool)
The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Tapor
The Why Axis
Thinglink
Mr. Data Converter
Core77
Edudemic
Overview
Cool Infographics
Pop Chart Lab
GE Visualization
Help Me Viz
Mapping Controversies
eagereyes
Web Seer
Visualising Data
SecViz Security Visualization
Learning Solutions

3D:

SketchUp (Free Version)
Blender (General 3D Free)
MeshLab (3D Cleanup Free)
Design Spark Mechanical CAD(Free)
Sculptris (Digital Sculpting Free)
ParaView (Scientific Viz Free)
ViSit (Scientific Viz Free)
Unity (Game Engine Free Edition)
Allegorithmic (Texturing)
Molecular Maya (Plugin Free)
CrazyBump (3D Texturing Free Demo)
Headus(UV Texturing Free Demo)
3D Coat(3D sculpting Free Demo)
Seamless3D (Free)
FreeWRL
Wings3D (Free)
Autodesk (Maya, 3DS Max,CAD)
ZBrush(Digital Sculpting)
3D Slicer(CT Medical)
Cl3ver(WebGL for showing models)
Spiers(CT Medical)

3D PRINTING & SCANNING:

SeeMeCNC
MakerBot
Cubify
Form Labs
Ultimaker
Lulzbot
3Doodler Pen
3D Print Industry
3D Print
3Ders
DIY 3D printing

3D SCANNING / MODEL PREP :

Slic3r(Free)
MeshMixer(Free)
NetFabb
123D Catch (Free)
Skanect
ReconstructMe
Blokify
Voxelizer

TOOLS:

Cacoo
Gliffy
FlowChart
Many Eyes
Tableau
Charts LiveGap
DataMarket
Chartodb (Map Visualizations)
GeoCommons (Map Visualizations)
Chartle
TimeToast (Online Timeline Creation)
Hohli (Online Chart Builder)
Stat Silk
Draw.io (Diagram Drawing tool works w/ Google Drive)
Wordle (Word Cloud Creator)
TagCowd (Word Cloud Creator)
NetLogo (Agent Modeling Env.)
OpenHeatMap
Zing Chart (Javascript Lib)
Apophysis (fractal flame)
Excel 2013
Visio 2013
OpenLayers (Map API)
Modest Maps (Map API)
OpenStreetMaps
MapStack (Map API)
Mapbox (Map API)
Project R
Rattle GUI for Project R
Mallet for Project R
Gephi
Raw
MindMup
Inkscape
Gimp
Molecular Flipbook (Animation)
VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics)

INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED:

Processing
ProcessingJS
D3
D3Network (package for R)
JS3
KineticJS
threeJS
Flare (Action Script Lib Flash)
Prefuse (Visualization Toolkit)
PaperJS
Arduino
Awesome D3

DATA SOURCES:

The Commonwealth Fund
Pew Research Center
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The PolicyMap
Datavisualization.ch
Kaggle

COLLABORATIVE:

Twiddla
Concept Board
Prezi
edmodo
Collabedit

LEARN PROGRAMMING:

Python Tutor
Scratch
Alice
Hopscotch
CodeAcademy
W3 Schools
Khan Academy
Happy Nerds
Sublime Text (Code Editor)
VS Code (Code Editor)

BOOKS & MEDIA:

Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason by Jonas Salk
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity in Business by Michael Ray
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks...
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
Designing Interactions, by Bill Moggridge
Drawing for Designers, by Alan Pipes
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte
The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
The Visual Story, by Bruce Block
The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Lives of the Artists, by Calvin Tomkins
The Art of Game Design, by Jesse Schell
Animation Insiders (Free ebook)
Innovate the Pixar Way, by Bill Capodagli
Pixar : At the Museum of Modern Art,by Steven Higgins
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes,by Walt Stanchfield
Ideas for the Animated Short, by Karen Sullivan (one of my former teachers)
The Animator's Survival Kit, by Richard Williams
The Gift of Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
Night, by Elie Wiesel
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
Visual Thinking: for Design, by Colin Ware
The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
The Element, by Ken Robinson

Virtual Reality:
Augmented Reality &
Misc. Technologies:

OculusVR
Smart Reality(for BIM, free trial)
Leap Motion
Microsoft HoloLens
Vuzix
Vuforia
Miraisens

ADDITIONAL:

Object2VR
Pano2VR
PImagePlot
Circular Composite Viz Circos
Color Brewer
Color Scheme Designer
Color Codes HTML
Kuler
BioViz
VIZBI
Zygote Body
CSS Button Creator
IconMoon
Pepakura
Text to 3D Print Braille

PEOPLE in VIZ:

Nick Feltron
Edward Tufte
Don Norman
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling Search
Ben Fry
Casey Reas
David McCandless
Bill Moggridge
Jer Thorp
Amanda Cox
Aaron Koblin
Jesse Schell
Jared Tarbell
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Moritz Stefaner
Viktor Deak
Matthias Shapiro
Ernst Haeckel
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Stephen Few
Alex Dragulescu
Shawn Graham
Scott Murray
Enrico Bertini
Andy Kirk
Naomi Robbins
Cole Nussbaumer

ARTISTS:

Keith Haring
David Kinsey
Andy Howell
David Cooper
James Jean
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Blu
Paul Cezanne
Albert Durer
Karim Rashid
Sir Kenneth Robinson
Randy Pausch
Mitchel Resnick
Kevin Kelly
Ray Kurzweil