Visualisation

Guides to what kind of graph to use:

• Andy Kriebel’s visual vocabulary

• chartmaker.visualisingdata.com/

• data-to-viz.com/caveats.html

• datavizcatalogue.com/search.html

• datavizproject.com

• Datawrapper: dos and don’ts series

• EEA: dos and don’ts of data viz

• flowingdata.com/chart-types

• ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary/

• policyviz.com/2021/02/08/five-charts-youve-never-used-but-should/

• policyviz.com/2016/11/30/style-guides/

• style.ons.gov.uk/category/data-visualisation/

Anscombe, F.J. Graphs in Statistical Analysis. The American Statistician, 27/1, 1973, pp. 17-21

Blinderman, Ilia. How to make dope shit. Part 2: Design. The Pudding

Cairo, Alberto. The functional art. New Rider, 2013 Library resource

Cairo, Alberto. The truthful art. New Rider, 2016 Library resource

Cairo, Alberto. Datasaurus. 2016

Chalabi, Mona. Instagram & 2023 podcast<https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-558-mona-chalabi> & 2024 article<https://www.theverge.com/24093294/mona-chalabi-interview-palestine-gaza-data-viz>

Dick, Murray. The infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications. MIT Press, 2020. Library resource

Engebretsen, Martin & Kennedy, Helen. Data Visualisation in Society. 2020

Financial Times. Chart advice blogs.

Frost, Adam et al. Communicating with data visualisation: a practical guide. Sage, 2022. Library resource

House of Commons. Library guide to designing effective charts

Kirk, Andy. Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design. SAGE, 2019 (2nd ed.) Library resource

Knight Center. Module 5. Visualising. Data journalism and visualisation with free tools. Online course. 2019

Levontin, Polina & Walton, Jo Lindsay, Visualising Uncertainty. Sad Press, 2020

Matejka, Justin & Fitzmaurice, George. Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing, CHI, 2017 [‘the Datasaurus dozen’]

Muth, Lisa Charlotte. How to choose more beautiful colors for your data visualisation. Blogpost, Datawrapper, 2020

Muth, Lisa Charlotte. In defense of simple charts. Blogpost, Datawrapper, 2021

Posavec, Stefanie & Lupi, Giorgia. Dear Data. Particular Books, 2016 & Library resource

Rue, Jeremy. Visualising data: a guide to chart types. Berkeley. 2019

Schwabisch, Jonathan. Better data vizualisations. Columbia, 2021. Library resource

Smith, Alan. How charts work. Pearson, 2022. Library resource

Sunlight Foundation. Dataviz style guidelines

Tufte, Edward. Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press, 2006

Tufte, Edward. Envisioning information. Graphics Press, 1990. Library resource

Tufte, Edward. The visual display of quantitative information. 2nd ed., Graphics Press, 2001

Tableau resources:

• Reference gathering

• Tableau gallery

• Makeover Monday: data & gallery & forum & youtube (live walkthroughs)

• BBC Style guide for Tableau

Wilkinson, Leland. The grammar of graphics. Springer, 1999 Library resource

Wong, Dona M. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics. Norton, 2013. Library resource (2010 ed.)