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.
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.