Contents

Books

<aside> 📔 Truthful Art The Truthful Art is an introduction to quantitative thinking and statistical and cartographical representation written specifically for journalists and designers. Also, check out the other book *The Functional Art* by Alberto Cairo.

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<aside> 📔 Knowledge is Beautiful The book features infographics to present complex information, showing connections and relationships in visual displays. It traverses data from art to science, from health to popular media, to show patterns and connections in our lives.

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<aside> 📔 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative This book by Edward Tufte describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect.

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<aside> 📔 Information Graphics This coffee table book has over 400 examples of information graphics from around the world, covering data visualization in journalism, government, education, business, and more. There are also some introductory essays on data visualization history and theory and data journalism. It has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually.

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<aside> 📔 The Minard System The Minard System explores the nineteenth-century civil engineer's career and the story behind this masterpiece of multivariate data, as well as sixty of Minard's other statistical graphics reflecting social and economic changes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and around the world.

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<aside> 📔 W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits A landmark collection for social history, graphic design, and data science.

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<aside> 📔 Good Charts Workbook Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualisations by Scott Berinato.

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<aside> 📔 Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data-Driven Design Andy Kirk teaches the concepts and skills of how to present data, along with effective visual design.

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<aside> 📔 Information Dashboard Design Stephen Few exposes the common problems in dashboard design and describes its best practices in great detail and with a multitude of examples.

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<aside> 📔 The Big Book of Dashboards The book, comprising dozens of examples that address different industries, departments and platforms, matches great dashboards with real-world business scenarios.

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<aside> 📔 Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal Discover the patterns in your everyday life in a guided visual journal.

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<aside> 📔 **Data Sketches** Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively.

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