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 February 2011:
Fell in Love with Data | Killer Trait for Vis Experts #1: A Urge to Make a First Draft + Perseverance | Link
Fell in Love with Data | Killer Trait for Vis Experts #2: ‘Can’t Get No Satisfaction’ a.k.a. exploring alternatives | Link
Alan Smithee Presents | Great collection of Tableau tips and tricks | Link
Nieman Journalism Lab | Attitudes in the tubes: An Irish site mines Twitter for political trends | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Broadband availability and speed visualized in new government map | Link
Contrast | Thoughtful discussion on infographics and data | Link
CR Blog | The Feltron 2010 Annual Report | Link
mbostock | Data-Driven Documents using d3.js | Link
Perceptual Edge | Quantitative displays for combining time-series and part-to-whole relationships | Link
Smashing Magazine | Examining the design process: Clichés and idea generation | Link
Eye Magazine | Nicholas Felton talks to Eye about the allure of data-driven storytelling | Link
Infosthetics | Free encyclopedia of interactive design, usability and user experience | Link
Strata Conference | Simon Rogers, Guardian: ‘Free Our Data: How We Made Sense of Huge Datasets’ | Link
The Independent | Hot data: The art of the infographic | Link
O’Reilly Answers | How to design good data visualizations, diagrams, and information graphics | Link
Jerome Cukier | Collection of 5 great tutorials on Protovis | Link
GMaps Plugin | Maps: An Intro Guide for Business Intelligence Dashboards | Link
MTA.me | Alexander Chen turns New York’s subway map into a strummable set of strings | Link
Tableau | Tableau announces new policy & advisory board for Tableau Public| Link
Nature Methods | Points of view: Points of review | Link
Statistical Graphics and More | Visualizing soccer league standings | Link
Infosthetics | Strata 2011 [Day 1]: Making people fall in love with your data | Link
Infosthetics | Strata 2011 [Day 2]: Telling the story with data | Link
Infosthetics | Strata 2011 [Day 3]: Beauty, journalism and the human mind | Link
Inspired Magazine | Top 35 Flickr Groups for Infographics and Data Visualization | Link
Impure Blog | Visualization or visualisation? | Link
Infosthetics | Visualizing the airspace in Europe | Link
Seeing Complexity | W.E.B. Du Bois, radical visualization, and the transformative power of information | Link
Junk Charts | Why should charts exist? | Link
The Guardian | Information overload? Time to relax then | Link
Android Police | Cool Android activations visualization shows staggering growth | Link
Neoformix | Love and Hate on Twitter | Link
Drew Conway | Building a better word cloud | Link
CreativeBits | German Nazi Party’s Corporate identity manual | Link
Eager Eyes | Blur and uncertainty visualization | Link