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Appendix B – References

Throughout this book, we have cited or referred to additional materials to help you on your data literacy journey. This appendix serves as a single collection of all these resources. They are categorized as follows:

• Inspirational books – Books that we believe are valuable to read to help you increase your data literacy journey.
• Online articles and blogs – This is a collection of useful articles and blog posts on topics that are also covered in this book. They can be used to expand your knowledge.
• Online tools – This is a collection of helpful online tools that you can use in your various data and analytics projects.
• Online sites – This is a collection of websites where we believe you will find useful content related to data literacy.

This list is also available at www.kevinhanegan.com/dataliteracyinpracticereferences. This is especially helpful for people who have the paperback version of this book, so you can click on any of the URLs directly.

Inspirational books

• Cruise. Control (Dutch) by Merlijn Gillissen and Charles van der Ploeg
• De Intelligente, datagedreven organisatie (Dutch) by Daan van Beek
• De Big Data Revolution (Dutch) by Viktor Mayer-Schonenberger and Kennetrh Cukier (also availale in English)
• Data Strategy by Bernard Marr
• Datacratisch Werken (Dutch) by Daan van Beek
• Data Quality. The Field Guide by Thomas C Redman Ph. D
• Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl
• Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives by Howard Ross
• Lateral Thinking Puzzles by Paul Sloane
• Leading Change by John P Kotter
• Now You See It by Stephen Few
• Out of the Crisis by Edward Deming
• Show Me the Numbers by Stephen Few
• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott Page
• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization by Peter Senge
• Thinking with Data by Max Shron
• Turning Data into Wisdom by Kevin Hanegan

Online articles and blogs

• 6 Reasons Why BI and Analytics Projects Fail and How to Avoid It by Mark Tossel: https://www.salesforceben.com/6-reasons-why-bi-and-analytics-projects-fail-and-how-to-avoid-it
• A Complete Guide to Bar Charts by Mike Yi: https://chartio.com/learn/charts/bar-chart-complete-guide/
• An Appeal to the Eye. William Playfair promotes his charts by RJ Andrews: https://infowetrust.com/project/breviary
• BitMetric’s Visualization of Gartner’s Business Analytics Magic Quadrant: https://qap.bitmetric.nl/extensions/magicquadrant/index.html by Bitmetric
• Business Intelligence and Analytics Image: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Business-intelligence-and-analytics-Source-Davenport-and-Harris-2007_fig1_311962711
• Chapter 5 (The Big Bang: William Playfair, the Father of Modern Graphics) from A History of Data Visualization & Graphic Communication: https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/ch05-playfair.html
• Concave vs Convex: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/concave-vs-convex/
• Data on Old Faithful Geyser: https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/exploreoldfaithful.htm
• Data Privacy and Security Statistics: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/data-privacy-security-stats
• Data Tables Design Basics by Taras Bakusevych: https://taras-bakusevych.medium.com/data-tables-design-3c705b106a64
• Data Visualization Overview by Kate Brush and Ed Burns: https://www.techtarget.com/searchbusinessanalytics/definition/data-visualization
• Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East: https://www.historyofinformation.com/image.php?id=851
• How to Increase the Success Rate of Data Science Projects: https://www.techtarget.com/searchbusinessanalytics/feature/How-to-increase-the-success-rate-of-data-science-projects
• Important Examples of Prehistoric Rock Art: https://www.spain.info/en/places-of-interest/caves-altamira
• Moneyball (the movie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball_(film)
• Netherlands Data Protection Authority Publishes 2021 Data Breach Report: https://www.dataguidance.com/news/netherlands-ap-publishes-2021-data-breach-report
• Our Top Data and Analytics Predictions for 2019 by Andrew White: https://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2019/01/03/our-top-data-and-analytics-predicts-for-2019/
• Policy Brief: Principles for Responsible Data Handling: https://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs/responsible-data-handling
• QlikView Case Study: Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen (UWV) Competence Center builds more than 50 applications in just 2 years and provides 1,650 people with reporting & analysis capabilities: https://www.qlik.com/us/-/media/files/customer-success/global-us/uwv-success-story-en.pdf and http://docplayer.net/30148188-Disqover-uwv-qlikview-competence-center-qcc.html
• The 7 Most Pressing Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence: https://kambria.io/blog/the-7-most-pressing-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence
• The Lost Art of Questioning by Kevin Hanegan: https://www.qlik.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-questioning
• Torn… Between Two… by Angelika Klidas: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/torn-between-two-angelika-klidas
• Visual Battle: Table vs Graph by Cole Nussbaumer: https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/2011/11/visual-battle-table-vs-graph
• VizLib Library: Supporting data literacy for all: https://home.vizlib.com/vizlib-library-supporting-data-literacy-for-all/
• What to Consider When Creating Tables: Dos & Don’ts of Table Design by Lisa Charlotte Muth: https://blog.datawrapper.de/guide-what-to-consider-when-creating-tables
• Why Do So Many BI Initiatives Fail? https://www.silvon.com/blog/bi-initiatives-fail by Pat Passet
• Why Visual Literacy is Essential to Good Data Visualization by Ben Dexter Cooley: https://towardsdatascience.com/why-visual-literacy-is-essential-to-good-data-visualization-5b9dffb5aa6f

Dutch articles and blogs

The following list includes articles and blogs written in Dutch:

• 13 Vision Statement Examples by Jasper Bronkhorst: https://www.geldreview.nl/leiderschap/visie-statement-voorbeelden
• Call to Balloon – Insight into the Chain of Acute Myocardial Infarction Care (Dutch) by Guus Schrijvers: http://guusschrijvers.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martin-Smeekes-Meten-en-weten-in-de-spoedzorgketen.pdf
• How You Become the Most Inspiring Organization in your Industry (Dutch): https://www.identitive.nl/hoe-ook-meest-inspirerende-organisatie-branche-worden
• Increase in infections continues, number of new corona patients in hospitals fluctuate (Dutch): https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2012726519/stijging-besmettingen-zet-door-aantal-nieuwe-coronapatienten-in-ziekenhuizen-schommelt
• Predictive Analytics: Five Inspiring Examples (Dutch): https://biplatform.nl/517083/predictive-analytics-vijf-inspirerende-voorbeelden.html
• Small Online Discovery Tour in Stasi Museum: https://www.pieterjanssen.eu/2020/04/06/kleine-online-ontdekkingstocht-in-stasi-museum
• Transition Process of the Stasi Documents in Full Swing: https://www.pieterjanssen.eu/2020/06/15/transitieproces-van-de-stasi-documenten-in-volle-gang
• https://mijngemeente.vrnhn.nl/verhalen/call-balloon-tijdwinst-bij-patienten-met-een-hartinfarct
• https://www.rd.nl/artikel/479438-in-2020-produceert-de-wereld-40-zettabytes-aan-digitale-data by Reformatorisch dagblad

Online tools

The following list includes the online tools you can use:

• Adobe Color – Online color wheel and color theme generator: color.adobe.com
• Coolors – Online color palette generator: coolors.co
• Financial Times Chart Doctor – A repository for images related to the Financial Times Visual Vocabulary: https://github.com/Financial-Times/chart-doctor/tree/main/visual-vocabulary
• Palette Generator – Create color palettes based off uploaded images palettegenerator.com
• Sketch App Sources – Design files and other UI/UX resources and templates: www.sketchappsources.com
• Statista – Site that shows statistics around the volume of data and information created and consumed: www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created

Online sites

You can find the following sites and information online:

• Alberto Cairo’s website – Content related to information design and data visualization: www.albertocairo.com
• Dataversity – Data Education for Business and IT Professionals: www.dataversity.net
• Freecode Camp – Educational site for learning web development: www.freecodecamp.org
• IBM – Helps organizations become data-driven businesses: www.ibm.com
• IDC – A global market intelligence firm: www.idc.com
• Perceptual Edge Data Visualization Consultancy: www.perceptualedge.com
• Qlik – Data and Analytics Software Company: www.qlik.com
• SAS Analytics Academic Programs https://www.sas.com/nl_nl/learn/academic-programs.html
• The Data Literacy Project – A community dedicated to creating a data-literate world, with blogs, assessments, courses, and more: thedataliteracyproject.org
• The Power of AI and IoT – AI and IoT Knowledge Base (Dutch): thepowerofai.nl