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The seven hats of data visualisation
- 30 Oct 2019
- Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on data visualisation presented by Andy Kirk.
Advanced analytics and visualisation
- 24 Oct 2019
- Finance in a Digital World
Explore analytics and visualisation more in detail with this eLearning module from the ICAEW Finance in a Digital World
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Chartmaker
- 11 Oct 2019
A visual matrix designed to answer 'Which tool do you need to make that chart?'.
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The data visualisation catalogue
- 11 Oct 2019
A catalogue of different types of data visualisation charts. It aims to be a guide for selecting chart types based on your analysis or communication needs.
eBooks
The Library & Information Service provides a hand-picked collection of eBooks as a benefit of membership. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support or contact library@icaew.com.
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Python for accounting and business
- 28 Aug 2023
- Shivam Arora
The first of a two-volume series covering Python, a general-purpose programming language, for accounting and business tasks. This volume covers the concepts of Python and select foundational libraries using examples, codes, and accompanying outputs. Examples are tailored to accounting and business use-cases.
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Data visualization with Excel dashboards and reports
- 01 Apr 2021
- Dick Kusleika
Large corporations like IBM and Oracle are using Excel dashboards and reports as a Business Intelligence tool, and many other smaller businesses are looking to these tools in order to cut costs for budgetary reasons.
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Data visualisation with Python: create an impact with meaningful data insights using interactive and engaging visuals
- 01 Jan 2019
- Mario Dobbler, Tim Grossman
Understand, explore, and effectively present data using the powerful data visualization techniques of Python programming.
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Good charts: the HBR guide to making smarter, more persuasive data visualizations
- 01 Jan 2016
- Scott Berinato
Provides an essential guide to how visualization works. It will help you turn plain, uninspiring charts that merely present information into smart, effective visualizations that powerfully convey ideas.
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Automate the boring stuff with Python: practical programming for total beginners.
- 01 Jan 2015
- A. Sweigart
Learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand - with no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation.
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Excel dashboards and reports for dummies
- 18 Apr 2014
- Michael Alexander
Using Excel to build better reporting mechanisms.
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Analysis of financial data
- 01 Jan 2006
- Gary Koop
Covers the basic methods and techniques of data analysis.
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Principles and applications
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Data visualisation
- 01 Sep 2017
- Galit Schmueli
This video looks at exploring data using data visualisation tools.
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Tableau: how to videos
- 10 Oct 2019
Twenty-two videos on using the Tableau data visualisation tool.
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Visualisations that really work
- 01 Jun 2016
- Scott Berinto
- Harvard Business Review
This article explains how to pick the right type of chart and design to illustrate the data you're sharing.
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Data visualisation: why a picture can be worth a thousand clicks
- 01 Oct 2017
- Jim Rowan et al
The CFO Insights report explores the multiple uses of data visualisation and how finance can better leverage its possibilities.
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eLearning courses
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Visualising COVID19
- 15 Apr 2020
Within months, COVID-19 went from an epidemic to a pandemic. From the first identified case in December 2019, how did the virus spread so fast and widely? In this free R project, you will visualise data from the early months of the coronavirus outbreak to see how this virus grew to be a global pandemic.
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Communicating business analytics results
- 07 Oct 2019
- Coursera
In this course, you will learn how to communicate analytics results to stakeholders who do not understand the details of analytics but want evidence of analysis and data. You will be able to choose the right vehicles to present quantitative information, including those based on principles of data visualisation. You will also learn how to develop and deliver data analytics stories that provide context, insight and interpretation.
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Data visualisation in R
- 18 Oct 2019
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to plotting data with R’s default graphics system, base graphics. We then look at a number of R plotting examples, from simple graphs such as scatterplots to plotting correlation matrices. The course finishes with exercises in plot customisation.
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Tableau 10
- 21 Oct 2019
Learn data visualisation through Tableau 10 and create opportunities to discover data patterns such as customer purchase behaviour, sales trends or production bottlenecks. You will learn all of the features in Tableau that allow you to explore, experiment with, fix, prepare and present data easily and quickly.
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Courses from the ICAEW Academy of Professional Development
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Data visualisation | Various dates
- 15 Oct 2019
- Academy of Professional Development
The objective of this one-day training class is to enable you to use your data to communicate a story and insights to an audience, through a mix of data visualisation and storytelling. The class is focused on best practices based on scientific evidence and current theory, and has the business-oriented audience in mind.
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Bring the numbers to life with commercial insight | Various dates
- 16 Aug 2019
- Academy of Professional Development
Have you ever been challenged to be more commercial or to tell the story behind the numbers? Would you like to learn how to bring your data to life, to earn your seat around the table to influence the strategic agenda? Or would you like to inject some new life and soul into your monthly management reports, to grow your impact and gravitas?
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Advanced storytelling | Various dates
- 16 Aug 2019
- Academy of Professional development
Most influential business decisions are made through combining convincing data with an influential and persuasive background story. In this practical course you’ll learn how to transform your numbers into compelling narratives that inspire and motivate action.
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Introduction to Python | Various dates
- 17 Oct 2019
- Academy of Professional Development
This course is intended as an introduction to the Python programming language for individuals working in the financial sector. Through the use of taught material and practical examples, which all have a financial twist, participants will build up the skills needed to perform data analysis using Python.
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