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 and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them. Here’s the latest collection from a very busy September 2011:
DataMarket Blog | DataMarket’s chart types – different ways to look at data
DataMarket Blog | Data Visualization – Where normal people fall in love with data
Eye Blog | Historical Digital #3: Grow your own. More digital food for thought… made with Processing
Revolutions | Data Science: a literature review
Ghostwriter R&D Blog | Combing Through the Infovis Twitter Network Hairball
Discover Magazine | Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years
Brian Shumate | Designing and presenting compelling maps – public data mapbox tools
Data Driven Journalism | Training data driven journalism: Mind the gaps
Data Mining | Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literature
Derek Watkins | U.S. post offices … now with clickability!
Fathom | An interactive tool that depicts the 500 companies on Fortune Magazine’s annual list of America’s largest corporations
Fell In Love With Data | Tools from the Pros #1: Miriah Meyer on Processing
Fell In Love With Data | Tools from the Pros #2: Joe Mako on Tableau
Flowing Data | Quick time series visualization with Cube
Gizmodo | Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
GRC Database Information | The Kaleidoscope of Data and Information
Infosthetics | Strata NY 2011 [Day 1]: The Human Scale of Big Data
Infosthetics | Strata NY 2011 [Day 2]: Data for Social Change
Infosthetics | Strata NY 2011 [Day 2]: Man and Machine
Infosthetics | Strata NY 2011 [Data Visualizations] – The Subjectivity of Fact
Trulia Blog | House Hunting All Day, Every Day
Drawar | A Wikipedia Living Mark – Moving Brands jots down the process they went through when re-imagining the logo for Wikipedia
kottke.org | Super freaky realtime facial substitution
Linkli.st | Generative / media art reading
Telling Information | Analogue interactive infographics
Math Babe | Why and how to hire a data scientist for your business
Deric Bownd’s Mindblog | Nurture affects gender differences in spatial abilities
Wiley Online Library | A User Study of Visualization Effectiveness Using EEG and Cognitive Load
Owni.eu | What Data Visualization Can Learn from Game Design
Peltier Tech Blog | Excel 2010 Chart Types
Politicosphere | The US Politicosphere (at June 2009)
O’Reilly Radar | Building data science teams
O’Reilly Radar | The work of data journalism: Find, clean, analyze, create … repeat
YouTube | O’Reilly Strata Conference speakers video channel
(Re)Structuring Journalism | But Is It Art?
The Why Axis | Visualize Hierarchical Data with a Bubble Tree
Think Progress | More Graphs Needed
UX Magazine | Winning Combinations: Putting Data and Design Together
Vimeo | Showreel 2011 Elsa Secco
Vimeo | More videos from Eyeo Festival
Vis Week | 2011 VisWeek Infovis Papers
BBC News | In graphics: The eurozone’s crisis
Chrys Wu | How The Guardian does data visualization
Data Pointed | British Isles And Golden Arches – McDonald’s Of The United Kingdom, Mapped
Dataspora | Data scientists or data composers? Four steps to a symphony of data
Escape Key Graphics | Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show Map – Illustrator Time-Lapse
Youtube | Hjalmar Gislason interviewed at Strata Summit 2011
FastCo Design | Three Keys That Make Good Interaction Design Great
Guardian Data blog | The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821
Guardian Data blog | The Flickr map of the world
Guardian Data blog | Anders Breivik’s manifesto mapped
History Shots | Genealogy of US Airlines
Juice Analytics | Better Know a Visualization: Small Multiples
Juice Analytics | Visualizations as vocabulary… or know the big words, use the small ones
Nature: Methods | Points of view: Layout
Nature: Methods | Points of view: Arrows
SND | Design lessons from 9/11
New York Times | Where were you on September 11th, 2001?
New York Times | The Nation’s Unemployment Landscape
Poynter | Introduction to open-source GIS tools for journalists
FastCo Design | How Infographics Guru Nicholas Felton Inspired Facebook’s Timeline
FastCo Design | IBM Puts On A Big Data Viz Show, Streaming Real-Time Data About NYC