Expanding Skills

Mentor and mentee decide together on a skill that the mentee would like to work on, which the mentor has some experience with. The mentor suggests learning materials, sets “homework”, and supports the mentee to achieve a certain level of skill in a set period of time.

Challenges and Exercises*

• Makeover Monday // Makeover Monday.uk 

• Official repo for the #tidytuesday project

• challenges | storytelling with data

• exercises | storytelling with data

• Tableau Viz of the Day: This site, maintained by Tableau, is an excellent resource for inspiration where a new Tableau visualization is published every weekday. You will find design examples across diverse topics.

• Workout Wednesday: Workout Wednesday is great for skill building. A new challenge is posted every week to recreate a data-driven visualization. Solutions are posted to the website and the community on Tableau Public and Twitter.

• Find Open Datasets and Machine Learning Projects | Kaggle

Design and Storytelling*

• Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs

• Honing Your Skills in Data Visualization as a Designer | Nightingale 

• A Design Process for Dataviz

• Fixing My Design Process from the Inside Out 

Data Visualization Datasets*

• data.world

• Free Public Data Sets For Analysis | Tableau 

• 40 Free Datasets for Building an Irresistible Portfolio (2023) 

• Find Open Datasets and Machine Learning Projects | Kaggle

• 12 Excellent Data Visualization Datasets to Use Now

• 19 Fun Data Sets to Analyze and Level Up Your Portfolio 

How-To*

• Nightingale search on How To Tag

• The Flerlage Twins

Tools*

• Learning R For Free

• Learning R for FREE: Free online resources | R-bloggers

• Learning resources: R | Princeton Research Computing

• Learn Tableau for Free 

• Data Visualization in Tableau | Free Courses | Udacity

• Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau | Coursera

• Free Tableau Tutorial - Kickstarting Tableau | Udemy

• Learn D3 for Free 

• Learn D3 in this free 10-part data visualization course

• Data Visualization with D3 – Full Course for Beginners [2022]

• 10 Best D3.js Online Courses and Books to Learn Data Visualization in 2023

Building Accessible Visualizations*

• Chartability

• Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

• Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization - UMD College of Information Studies

• Accessible data visualizations - UW–⁠Madison Information Technology

• Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs | Digital Accessibility​

*Linked resources are provided as examples and are not exhaustive of everything the data visualization community has to offer. Please feel free to explore other resources and share what you find with mentorship@datavisualizationsociety.org so we can keep this page updated.