10. Designing Data for humans, creativity, and storytelling - Matt Brodie

In 'Show Your Work! ', Austin Kleon provides a manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age. The book emphasizes the importance of generosity over genius, getting 'findable' by using the network, and self-discovery through sharing your creative process. It offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, and productive, including chapters on sharing something small every day, engaging with your audience, and the etiquette of sharing online. The book is filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples to inspire and guide readers in their creative journeys.

This book is a definitive guide to dimensional modeling, starting with fundamental design recommendations and progressing through increasingly complex real-world scenarios. It covers advanced dimensional modeling patterns, including bridge tables, multivalued attributes, and slowly changing dimensions. The book also includes case studies from various industries such as retail sales, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. It emphasizes the use of the bus matrix for identifying relationships between dimensions and applications and provides guidance on ETL systems and the Kimball BI/DW life cycle methodology.

This book teaches you how to go beyond conventional data visualization tools to create engaging, informative, and compelling stories with your data. It covers the importance of context and audience, choosing the right type of graph, eliminating clutter, directing the audience's attention, and leveraging storytelling principles to make your message resonate. The book is grounded in theory but made accessible through numerous real-world examples.