At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking 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 April 2011:
NYT Labs | Project Cascade is a firt of its kind tool to analyse the structures which underly sharing activity on the web, initially applied to NYT content.
FastCo Design | More detail on Project Cascade
Computerworld | 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis
Declan Butler | A population density map to help provide context to a nuclear power plant proximity analysis
Clearly and Simply | An Underrated Chart Type: The Band Chart
Edward Tufte | The work of Charles Joseph Minard
Typographic Maps | Typographic Maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type
Flowing Data | Beauty of Maps available in its entirety
Perceptual Edge | Teradata, David McCandless, and yet another detour for analytics
Flowing Data | Business intelligence vs. infotainment – the most commented, debated and generally talked about visualisation theory issue of the year so far
Fell in Love With Data | Can visualization influence people? I mean can we prove it? – arguably the second most discussed theoretical matter of the year!
Infosthetics | Can we keep up? A physical data visualisation using sponges and water
Online Journalism Blog | Data for journalists: JSON for beginners
Online Journalism Blog | Data for journalists: understanding XML and RSS
Guardian Data Blog | Data journalism broken down: what we do to the data before you see it
Information Management | Interesting pair of articles about data science – Part 1 and Part 2
Infosthetics | Data visualization survival kit: Creating visualizations in the wild
Deutsche Welle | Data visualizations emerge across newsrooms, online publishers
NYT Learning Network | Data Visualized: More on teaching with infographics
Density Design | EXPO 2015 Themes Visualization
NYT Business Day | When the data struts its stuff
Data Pointed | Growth Rings – Maps Of U.S. Population Change, 2000-2010
Poynter | How to make a heat map in Google Fusion Tables
CNN | Fernando Viegas and Martin Wattenberg article ‘How to make data look sexy’
Infosthetics | HyperCities: Overlaying the Historical Maps of a City
Creative Bits | If logos could tell the truth
In Graphics | In Graphics – the magazine for visual people
Rohit Bhargava | The 5 models Of content curation
Carlacasilli’s media psychology | Excellent series of posts about information visualisation, a new visual language: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7
Intersect | Capture experiences in time and place and connect to people who cross your path — past, present, and future
NYT Personal Tech | Illustrating your life in graphs and charts
Max Gadney | Solution in search of a problem
Datavis.ca | Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics and data visualsiation
Pete Warden | Data Science Toolkit 0.35 released
Title | Pete Warden’s application to map the information your iPhone records about your movements
DataVisualization.ch | Review of the SEE#6 Conference
SEE#6 | Video stream of the SEE#6 Conference presentations/talks
CNN | Software brings Johnny Cash back to life
Perceptual Edge | The Chartjunk Debate: A Close Examination of Recent Findings
Wired | Tilt-shifted ski resort delivers thrills in miniature
Neoformix | Tweet Topic Explorer
Core 77 | Visuaklize time in color form with ZIIIRO’s new wristwatch designs
Drawar | What is Design?
Flowing Data | When charts attack
Epic Graphic | When function trumps form in infographics
Peltier Tech Blog | Why do we love pie charts?
UX Matters | Why great designers steal—and are proud of it
Visual Journalism | The death of data visualization in the news
Epic Graphic | 21 everyday visualisations
O’Reilly Radar | Maps aren’t easy – Pete Warden on digital map creation and data journalism tools.
Eye Magazine | Mapping it up – Embrace the inner cartographer of artists and graphic designers
Wired | Wikimedia Commons celebrates 10 million free files