Building powerful data visuals
Here you can follow along during the workshop ‘Building powerful data visuals’. On this page, you can also find all the links to the dataset and tools.
The data phase
- Finding the dataset: Google Dataset Search
- Nobel Prize Data: Harvard Dataverse
- Clean data to create visuals: Excel file
The chart phase
Finding the right chart:
- An overview of many chart types: Dataviz Catalogue
- A list of tools to create each chart type: Chartmaker Directory
- A helpful guide to select the right chart type: Chart.Guide
Easy-to-use tools to create charts:
Make sure to also read this blogpost on Datawrapper I wrote a few months ago.
The design phase
A great blog post on the use of colour: What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization
A great tool to create color schemes that work: Coolors.co
Below this line, we’ll plug the full visualization: