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Now that we have completed the course here are a few resources that I found very useful and I hope that you do also.
Alberto Cairo has just written a great book How Charts Lie that shows how to read charts carefully and intelligently, with many fantastic examples. Here is a video on youtube of a talk he gave on the subject at a conference.
Alberto is professor of visual journalism at the university of Miami. He has previously written two of books on data visualisation with a journalism focus; The Truthful Art and The Functional Art.
Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic makes us think about how to tell the story and motive behind the data. She spoke on this subject at Google a few years ago, here is the YouTube video.
Here is the 4 minute video of Hans Rosling visualising and explaining the health and wealth of 200 countries over 200 years.
London - The Information Capital is a coffee table book of innovative and inventive data visualisations about London
Stephen Few is the thought leader in the “less is more” approach to visualisation. He has written several books. One of them is Information Dashboard Design Amazon link here.
Many news organisations have a data journalism team. The Economist has produce a daily chart in their Graphic Detail section Graphic detail , The Economist. They also have a (subscriber-only) weekly newsletter, Off the Charts, where they reflect on the process of building these charts.
The Financial Times also has a strong data journalism section here.
The Guardian asserts “facts are sacred” in its datablog and they provide a list of all their data journalism, including source data, at All of our data journalism in one spreadsheet
David Spiegelhalter has written two books: Sex By Numbers (review here) and, more recently, The Art Of Statistics.
He is the main author of the website Understanding Uncertainty.