OTHER RESOURCES
- ‘Analogue Spreadsheet’ exercise to introduce concepts related to data through a team exercise.
- Bournemouth University Datalabs: a project that brought together NGOs, designers and journalists to develop data aggregation, digital storytelling and visualisation workshops for addressing civic and humanitarian issues.
- Data Carpentry: workshops designed to teach basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data, with an explicit focus on the skills needed to conduct research in different disciplines.
- ‘Data Literacy and data visualization’: iTunes-based University course from Ohio State University, introducing students to data visualisation and its use in political science.
- Databasic.io: a set of tools for students, journalists, non-profit organisations and community activists to help build their data literacy.
- Deconstructing Data Viz (Data Culture Project): an activity to help you take apart the meaning behind a data visualisation.
- Flowing Data: resources for exploring data visualisation yourself.
- Gapminder Foundation: offers free training and teaching resources to gather an evidence-based view of world issues.
- Infogram: a visualisation tool to help you create beautiful graphics from your raw data.
- Information is Beautiful: a blog offering a range of artistic and infographic pieces to explore all kinds of data.
- Introduction to cleaning data – free online course.
- Introduction to Open Refine data cleaning tool from the School of Data.
- Mirador: a tool for visually exploring complex datasets.
- Open Data Institute resources: A set of introductory courses to using and working with data.
- The Data Journalism Handbook: Designed for journalist and targeted at people with no prior knowledge of data science, it offers a text-based introduction to interrogating and using data to tell stories.
- Visual Capitalist: a wealth of data visualisations related to global economics and politics.
- Visualising information for Advocacy: online learning resources that accompany a companion book, exploring how to influence issues using information, design, technologies and networks.
- Word Counter: visualise the most commonly used words and phrases in your sample text.
- World Bank Open Data Essentials: The World Bank open data toolkit aims to give learners from governments and the World Bank an introduction to how to start and manage an open data initiative.
