Tableau and data vis readings

Tableau reference guide

Online Article

• This article by HBR (Harvard Business Review is worth reading) – visualisations that really work
• This article is also great as a best practice for data visualization
• Data Storytelling: How to Tell a Compelling Story with Data

Blogs to follow

• Stephen Few/
• Andy VizWiz
• Data+Science Jeffrey Shaffer
• Eva’s
• Charlie Hutcheson
• Mike Cisneros
• Sarah Bartlett
• Storytelling with data
  • and Coles guiding principles
• Tableau list of blogs
• Tableau Community spotlight 
• and more….

Books

• Show Me The Numbers – Stephen Few
• Storytelling with Data – Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
• The functional art – Albert Cairo
• The Big book of Dashboards – Steve Wexler

For inspiration

• Tableau viz of the day
• Make Over Monday – free data vis practice
• Information is beautiful
• Best of Tableau
• Vizible Difference
• Super Data Science custom chart tutorial (Youtube) –  this includes Sankey diagrams, Sunburst charts, Likert scales
• The Flerlage Twins
• Tableau Magic

Online seminars, tutorials

• Tableau tutorial
• Revisit Tableau Power Up session

Data sets

• List of publicly available data sources (list by Cole Knaflic @storywithdata)
  

Community

• Data Visualization Society
• Tableau user Groups

Other data vis tools to look at

• Sanddance (Microsoft)
• RawGraphs
• Project Lincoln (Adobe)
• Google Data Studio
• Google NewsLab
• Power BI (Microsoft)
• Watson Analytics (IBM)
• Flourish Data studio – for journalists