Best of the visualisation web… December 2010

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter you will see many of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s the latest collection from December 2010:

Wired | “.WWF” The tree-friendly file format that can’t be printed | Link

Smashing Magazine | “What Font Should I Use?” Five principles for choosing and using typefaces | Link

The Guardian | Best apps: our experts pick 50 of the most dazzling, useful and novel | Link

Design Shack | Design discussion: brand advertising vs. promotional marketing | Link

David B Sparks | Demonstration of electoral ‘Marimekko’ (or tree map) plots | Link

Wall Street Journal | Everything the Internet knows about me (because I asked it to) | Link

Loose Wire Blog | Facebook’s ‘Locality of Friendship’ | Link

Impure | Gapminder, redeveloped using Impure| Link

In Graphics | In Graphics – ‘A magazine for visual people’ | Link

O’Reilly Radar | Six months after the publication of the “What is data science?” paper | Link

O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Quick starts for charts| Link

O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Where to find data | Link

O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Write your own visualizations | Link

Core 77 | Thinking of doing a design PhD? | Link

xPlane | Why the office is still a great place to work | Link

Flowing Data | Amanda Cox (NYT) on data graphics and stuff | Link

Creative Review | Amnesty’s guerrila campaign makes the invisible visible | Link

Online Journalism Blog | Visualising data with the Datapress WordPress plugin | Link

Impure | Impure second video-tutorial: Workspaces and Impure code | Link

IBM | Data visualization with Processing, Part 1: An introduction to the language and environment | Link

New York Times | Interactive puzzles to test your insight | Link

New York Times | Designing election results on the iPad | Link

Discover Magazine | Live not by visualization alone… | Link

Flowing Data | 10 best data visualization projects of the year – 2010 | Link

New York Times | ‘Mapping America: Every City, Every Block’ – showing household income distribution | Link

41 Latitude | Why do Google Maps’s city labels seem much more “readable” than those of its competitors? | Link

Wall Street Journal | “What They Know” series – the data collected and shared by 101 popular apps on iPhone and Android phones | Link

DataVisualization.ch | The Google Books Ngram Viewer | Link

Junk Charts | Handling multi-level data in multiple charts | Link