Essential Reads:

Curated Books, Key Resources, and Creative Inspiration

Want to take this further?

The tools and resources below are part of the same methodology I use in selected client and research projects through my studio NECESSITY.INK.

If you're working on something that involves sound, data, or complexity — and you're not sure how to shape it yet — this is exactly the kind of work we explore at NECESSITY.INK.

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY STUDIO NECESSITY.INK

Data Sonification

Data Sonyfier (tool)

Two-Tones (tool)

Data Sonification Archive

Sonic Tides Sonification

The Sound of Visa Inequality

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS (ONLINE AND IN-PERSON)

Data Sonification Workshops and Online Courses

Project Consultation & Review – JOIN HERE

Unlocking the Power of Data Sonification – JOIN HERE

Introduction to Data Visualization – JOIN HERE

Public Speaking Coaching

Dataviz Tools, Accessibility Apps

RAWGraph

DataWrapper

Data Colour Picker

Viz Palette

Sim Daltonism

Color Brewer

The Visual Vocabulary by The Financial Times

Colour Contrast Analyser

The Dataviz Project by Ferdio

Books, Magazines, Blogs

🆕 Market Cafe Magazine, The world’s first magazine about data visualisation

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

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

Something missing?

If you have recently launched a new tool, book, or blog about data visualisation and would like to add it to this list, please feel free to email me at hello@tizianaalocci.com with the name of your resource and its link.

The first 36 hours onboard a commercial cargo ship in navigation in the Mediterranean Sea collecting data and sounds as part of the NPoE residency ⚓️ In the last picture my current office! The crew onboard is simply amazing, I’m grateful to be
Now you can listen to an image. I finally finished a photograph to sound sonification system to turn pixels into sound so I can use images as data ✨ Plus a couple of other experiments I’ve done over the weekend ✨ #touchdesigner #sonification #
“Scented Connections”, Perfumes data, network visualisation. 30 individual artwork, each piece shows a different dataset. 15 millions data points visualised in total. Inspired by the intricate web of relationships and forms in nature, ea
"Emotional Geography, Venice", 2024. The last piece available, exclusively via Unit London Editions (@uleditions).⁠ ⁠ The backstory: Well, if you love Venice, this is for you. And it's all about love. I recorded the audio visualised in this
Incredibly happy to be among the winners of the 2026 Data Sonification Awards with my work DATASONICA. Since its launch in November 2025 at @unitlondon, DATASONICA as been exhibited at @bangkok_kunsthalle Thai ElectroAcoustic Music Society (@teams.mu
​Join my next dataviz workshop! This in-person session is designed to explore the art and science of data visualisation. ⁠Non-designers welcome!⁠ ⁠ 🎟️ Book now on Luma (link in bio): https://luma.com/36qv52ja⁠ ⁠ ​📊 You will explore the fundamentals
DATASONICA on show at @bangkok_kunsthalle as part of @teams.mulch. Thank you so much @crsrcrsrrr @msyves 🙏 Made with @touchdesigner and a lot of patience #touchdesigner #sonification #data #installation #bangkok
Who wants to go to Tokyo? Me! So I temporary turned my studio into a gallery to display the pieces I made while I was in Tokyo. Using a microphone I recorded the electromagnetic field of electric objects and turned them into a sound (swipe to see t
Touch Designer + data workshop in London 🇬🇧 Join us in my studio in Hackney Wick for a 3-hours @touchdesigner class led by the media artist @arrddon 🇰🇷 2nd May, 2pm, limited capacity, first com first served, link in bio. This session explores h
Frequencies of Belonging turns one 🎂 Thank you to everyone who join this first 12 months. The journey keeps going, the archive keeps growing. I’m grateful. What’s home for you?
Hong Kong holds the highest number of skyscrapers in the world, and the first thing I noticed is that the sky is not really there unless you go looking for it. And still, I didn’t feel that tension I usually feel in London. Actually I felt comf
I accidentally became instagrammable 🌑 Frequencies of Belonging was on display in the immersive room at @cupragarage_madrid for @canartfair 🇪🇸 FREQUENCIES OF BELONGING is an immersive installation based on collection of voice notes about the mea
Frequencies of Belonging was presented in the immersive room at CUPRA City Garage for the 10th anniversary of CAN Art Fair 2026 in Madrid. The CUPRA City Garage immersive room is a meeting point where music, cinema, design, art and culture coexist as
Meanwhile in Madrid 🇪🇸 My digital art installation Frequencies of Belonging is displayed in over 150 locations across Madrid. The Digital Art Program of @canartfair 2026 has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of @madrid, @todoestaenmad
Emotional Geography, ‘Holbox’, field recording and biometric data. @unitlondon, 2024. Sonic identity of ten cities visualised using soundscapes and biometric data (heartbeat and heart rate variability). #data #dataviz #dataart #unitlond

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