Workshop on SDG & COVID-19 Data Visualization Toolkit
UNSD-FCDO Project on SDGs Monitoring
Data Visualization Resources
Guidelines:
1. UNECE “Making Data Meaningful”
2. A Brief History of Data Visualization, Michael Friendly, 2006
3. Scientific Attitude and Picture Language, Elisabeth Nemeth
4. The Truthful Art, Alberto Cairo, 2016
5. UK Office for National Statistics website https://style.ons.gov.uk/category/data-visualisation/
6. UK ONS Infographic guidelines - a complete guide with best practices
https://theidpblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/infographic-guidelines-v1-0.pdf
7. “Data Visualization (Venngage): https://venngage.com/gallery/post/data-visualization-process-
infographic-example-beautiful/
Design:
1. Data visualization: basic principles
2. 5 Principles of Visual Design in UX
3. Visual Vocabulary click into every Chart Types
4. An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data
5. Storytelling with Data blog
6. 7 tips and tricks from the dashboard experts
7. Makeover Monday
8. Nightingale Medium Journal
9. Laws of UX
Design Books:
1. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
2. Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
3. Information Is Beautiful
4. Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations
5. Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization
Icons:
1. Noun Project
2. Flat Icon
3. Freepik
4. How to use icons in your infographics: https://visme.co/blog/how-to-use-icons-in-infographics/
Infographics:
1. Picktochart
2. Visually
3. Easelly
4. Venngage
5. Infogram
6. Canva
Data and Statistics:
1. Towards Data Science
2. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
3. Avoiding Data Pitfalls: How to Steer Clear of Common Blunders When Working with Data and
Presenting Analysis and Visualizations
4. Presenting Data (UK ONS): https://style.ons.gov.uk/category/data-visualisation/
Charts/Graphs:
1. FlowingData.com
2. DataVizCatalog.com
3. The Graphic Continuum: https://policyviz.com/2014/11/11/graphic-continuum-desktop-version/
4. Storytelling With Data: A Good Charts Workbook Tool (video)
5. Our World in Data – Global Health and All Charts
6. Visual Vocabulary
7. Designing Persuasive Charts (video)
8. Tools for Combating Bias in Datasets & Models (video)
Excel resources:
1. Data visualization in Excel: https://www.stl-training.co.uk/b/data-visualisation-in-excel/
2. Chart chooser in Excel: http://labs.juiceanalytics.com/chartchooser/index.html
Software:
1. Tableau
• Tutorial videos on LinkedIn Learning
• Book Practical Tableau: 100 Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies from a Tableau Zen Master
2. Flourish Studio
• Tutorial videos by Alberto Cairo
3. Datawrapper
• Tutorials
4. Observable
*Full list of resources includes recommendations provided by Mr. Hong Qu during an Editorial Board
training on data visualization (April 2021) and Mr. Ray Vella for this workshop.
