Useful Data Resources

Book recommendations:

Big Book of Dashboards: Visualising Your Data Using Real World Business Scenarios – Wexler, Shaffer, Cotgreave

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualisation Guide for Business Professionals – Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design – Andy Kirk

Dear Data – Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information – Alberto Cairo

Visualizing health and healthcare data – Rowell, Betzendahl and Brown (new in 2020 – I would highly recommend to my healthcare data connections)

Book recommendations to support developing your data visualisation skills:

Storytelling with Data: Let’s Practice – Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

#MakeoverMonday: Improving How We Visualize and Analyze Data, One Chart at a Time – Andy Kriebel and Eva Murray

Regular challenges/initiatives to support your data visualisation skills development:

#MakeoverMonday: https://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/

#WorkOutWednesday:  http://www.workout-wednesday.com/

#storytellingwithdata: https://community.storytellingwithdata.com/

#ProjectHealthViz: https://vizzendata.com/projecthealthviz/

#Ironquest: https://sarahlovesdata.co.uk/tag/ironquest/

#SportsVizSunday: https://www.sportsvizsunday.com/

Data Blogs:

https://sarahlovesdata.co.uk/ – Blogs by Sarah Bartlett creator of #Ironquest

https://missdataviz.wordpress.com/ – Blogs by Lorna Brown – co leader of #workoutwednesday and #tableautiptuesday

http://dataandstuff.com/ – Bitesize Tableau blogs by James Goodall

https://www.reflectionsindesign.com/ – blogs by Sam Parsons

https://tableautraining.co.uk/resources/tableau-bites/  – regular round up of some of the best Tableau blogs

https://www.thetableaustudentguide.com/ – useful blogs and guidance from Tableau Student Ambassador Maria Brock to help get you started with Tableau

www.vizjockey.com – blogs from Zen Master and #IronViz Champion Klaus Schulte

www.dataplusscience.com/insights.html – brilliant blog posts from Zen Master and data visualisation professor Jeffrey Shaffer

Books on enabling a data culture:

Data Driven: Business Transformation – Carruthers and Jackson

Be Data Literate – the data literacy skills everyone needs to succeed – Jordan Morrow

Not an exhaustive list – I will keep adding to these as I come across useful resources

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