EVERYTHING I WISH I KNEW BEFORE STARTING
The tools I actually use, how to learn them, and lots of free resources behind my work.
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Books, Magazines, Blogs
Market Cafe Magazine, The world’s first magazine about data visualisation
Data&Eggs, curated collection of data storytelling
Soundscape, The tuning of the world, R. Murray Schafer
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Design as Art, Bruno Munari
Da Cosa Nasce Cosa, Bruno Munari
DearData, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec
Question in Dataviz, Neil Richards
The Data Storytelling Workbook, Anna Feigenbaum
Flowing Data, Nathan Yau
Nightingale Magazine
Junk Charts, Kaiser Fung
Visualising Data, Andy Kirk
The Functional Art, Alberto Cairo
Talks, Videos, Keynotes
TEDx, How sound data can recreate lost memories, Tiziana Alocci
TED, See how the rest of the world lives, organised by income, Ana Rosling
The Joy of Stats, Hans Rosling
TED3 ways to spot a bad statistic, Mona Chalabi
TED, The best stats you've ever seen, Hans Rosling
Datasets, Database, Sources
World Bank Open Data
UN Data
Census Bureau
World Health Organization (WHO)
Nasa Open Portal
National Climatic Data Center (NOAA)
Our World in Data
London Data Store
Office of National Statistics (ONS)
ProPublica Data Store
STUDIO REFERRAL
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