Resource List

Lecture notes

The main reading for the course is the FDS lecture notes.

Please email david.c.sterratt@ed.ac.uk if you would like the lecture notes in a different format. 

Visualisation principles and guidance

To help you make good visualisations and to help us to mark them, we've created this one-page set of visualisation principles and guidance.

The visualisation principles and guidance refers to:

• From Data to Viz
• Chapter 1 of Wexler et al. (2017) Big book of data dashboards, available from the resource list - we suggest using the "Wiley Online Library UCBM all Online Books" option

Essential and recommended reading in the Resource List link below

Informatics 2 - Foundations of Data Science Resource List

You can access the reading list for this course by selecting the link above. In order to view some resources on the list, you must be logged in with your EASE account. 

For more information on getting the most out of your courses Resource List, have a look at this video.