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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.
"This book responds to mounting calls to broaden the theorization of digital journalism, addressing critical questions about an emerging yet rapidly expanding area of study, and presenting multiple entry points and approaches that help us understand digital journalism better. Seeking to establish it
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Management and Visualisation: Seeing Beyond the Strategic
London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 129 pp.
"In this book, the case is made for visual management as a method of communications, planning, learning and reporting that connects the organisation in a single, meaningful and seamless way. Throughout this book, visual management is theorised around the position that all forms of management documen
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Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: A deliberative systems approach
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 3 (2023), pp. 637-655
"Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article
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Data for Governance Alliance advocacy manual: A tool for articulating data-based advocacy and engagement between African CSOs and the African Union
Data for Governance Alliance Consortium (2022), 110 pp.
"The purpose of the training manual is to increase knowledge, skills, confidence and build the capacity of citizens and civil society organizations on evidence-based advocacy, and data driven advocacy. Through a combination of praxis and complementary activities, trainees will have an enhanced compr
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Seeing the (In)justice of Sustainability: Visualizing Inequality at the Centre of Climate Change Communication
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-186
Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 2, issue 1 (2021), pp. 79-99
"Through a combination of scientific and community activity, our environment is increasingly registered and documented as data. Given the expanding breadth of this digital domain, it is crucial that scholars consider the problems it presents as well as its affirmative potential. This article, arisin
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Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), 464 pp.
"Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using interdisciplinary approaches, contributions
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Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Cambridge, MA: Elsevier, 4th ed. (2021), xix, 538 pp.
"Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved c
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Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xi, 449 pp.
"This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do's and don'ts of
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Do no Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization
Washington, DC: Urban Institute (2021), 43 pp.
Supplementing Emergency Warning Messsages to Encourage Readiness to Act: The Effect of Colour and Icons
Melbourne: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC; Queensland University of Technology (2021), 52 pp.
"An online survey was conducted in which participants were exposed to one of 16 mock emergency warnings about either a bushfire or a riverine flood and were then asked a series of questions relating to their demographic characteristics, message comprehension and effectiveness, threat appraisal, copi
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The Data Visualization Workshop: A Self-Paced, Practical Approach to Transforming Your Complex Data Into Compelling, Captitative Graphics
Birmingham: Packt Publishing, 2nd ed. (2020), vii, 504 pp.
Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2020), xvi, 427 pp.
"Each chapter starts with a brief recap of the key lessons that are covered in storytelling with data. This is followed by: 'practice with Cole': exercises based on real-world examples posed for you to consider and solve, accompanied by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation; 'practice o
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Data Visualization in Society
Deep Insights
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 464 pp.
"This book is a contribution to the multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Do data visualizations do 'good' or 'bad'? Do they promote understanding and engagement, or do they do ideological work, privileging certain vie
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Infographics, New Media and Media Consumption Habits in Nigeria
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 52 pp.
"This study engages in a comparative analysis of the history, importance, and benefits of infographics, in general, and in the media, in particular in Nigeria. It looks at the history of the Nigerian press, as well as the scale of use of infographics and new media tools in communicating business sto
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Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction
Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press (2019), xviii, 272 pp.
"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data vis
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Data Story: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story
Oakton, Virginia: IdeaPress Publishing (2019), vii, 224 pp.
"Duarte and her team have culled through thousands of data slides of her clients in technology, finance, healthcare, and consumer products, to decode how the highest performing brands communicate with data. DataStory teaches you the most effective ways to turn your data into narratives that blend th
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Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight
Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media (2018), xiii, 149 pp.
"If you're a data scientist trying to navigate the murky space between data and insight, this practical book shows you how to make sense of your data through high-level questions, well-defined data analysis tasks, and visualizations to clarify understanding and gain insights along the way. When inco
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A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2017), 229 pp.
"Since this book first published in 2006, the field of graphics reporting has changed dramatically. First, information visualization has exploded online and on other digital platforms. Second, information graphics reporting has encompassed nearly every sector of communication and business. Visual re
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Data Visualizations Break Down Knowledge Barriers in Public Engagement
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 165-197
