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 October 2011:
blprnt | 138 Years of Popular Science
A List Apart | Take Control of Your Maps (from 2008)
Air Traffic ContrLOL | Incredible live feed of Air Traffic Control data
NYT Sunday Review | It’s All Connected: An Overview of the Euro Crisis
Visual Communication Lab Blog | Announcing Historio: A tool for rewriting history
Think Vitamin | Art and the Web: Color
Bret Victor | “Things I’m thinking about, AKA Research”
Fathom | Changing Fortune
Data Remixed | Comparing Word Usage in Sacred Writings
Christoph Viau | Scripting Inkscape with d3.js
Mike Bostock GitHub | Some of Mike Bostock’s presentation slides about D3 from his VisWeek talk
o’Reilly Radar | Data journalism and “Don Draper moments” – Alastair Dant on how tech, data and narrative come together at The Guardian.
New York Times | The Default Choice, So Hard to Resist
Guardian | The future of UK aid – Interactive
blprnt | Quick Tutorial: Twitter & Processing
blprnt | UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter
Smashing Magazine | Design is About Solving Problems
jnd.org | Design Education: Brilliance Without Substance
Six Revisions | Gestalt Principles Applied in Design
Fastco Design | Gorgeous Vintage Floodplain Maps That Look Like Modern Art
Greg Judelman | M.Sc. Thesis – Knowledge Visualization
Fastco Design | Infographic Of The Day: The Re-Redesigned London Tube Map
Yahoo | The Yahoo Mail Visualizer
Eager Eyes | The Many Names of Visualization
Epic Graphic | The Sunday Times Does Data Visualisation
Fell in Love with Data | Tools from the Pros #3: Jan Willem Tulp on D3 and Protovis
Fell in Love with Data | Shaking our heads won’t make visualization any better
Flowing Data | Nobel laureates by country and prize
Flowing Data | The Don’ts of Infographic Design
Infosthetics | Interview: A View Behind the Scenes of… Viral Infographics
Infosthetics | Opinion Visualization: What Do People Feel about their Economic Outlook
Infosthetics | Showing Geo-Located Points with the ‘HexBin’ Method
Drawar | The Squiggle Of The Design Process
O’Reilly Radar | Visualization of the Week: Sentiment in the Bible
World Economic Forum | Global Agenda Survey 2011
Silicon Angle | Q&A with Tableau Software Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan
Techcrunch | Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics
Graphic Sociology | Visualizing world population growth
The Why Axis | Interactive Hurricane Trackers and Transforming Viewers into Users – a review
Understanding Graphics | Infoposters Are Not Infographics: A Comparison
Under the Raedar | Mapping Methods
UX Mag | The Psychologist’s View of UX Design
Jim Vallandingham | Recreating Old Visualizations with New Technology
Worry Dream | Up and down the ladder of abstraction
Worry Dream | Magic Ink – Information Software and the Graphical Interface
Flowing Data | Where people don’t use Facebook
Infosthetics | The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Visualizing Global Economic Growth
Buzz Feed | Occupy Your Money
Matthew Ericson | Visualizing the News at AIGA
Matthew Ericson | When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps
Fastco Design | Infographic: If 7 Billion People Lived In One City, How Big Would It Be?
The Guardian | The UN predicts the world’s population explosion: visualised
The Guardian | Public spending by UK government department: an interactive guide
NASA | NASA Releases Visual Tour of Earth’s Fires
Perceptual Edge | Report from VisWeek 2011: Is information visualization a science?
Perceptual Edge | VisWeek – What Constitutes the Best Research?
Present Your Story | MTA’s New Interactive Transit Map Design
Smashing Magazine | The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design (Editor – but not quite on the money…)
Nieman Journalism Lab | Word clouds considered harmful
TEDTalks | Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
Tech@State Data Visualizaton | Edward Tufte presentation
Views of the World | The Human Shape of Germany in HD
Visualizing.org | Q&A With Mahir Yavuz
Wired | Q&A: Nick Halstead on mining Twitter’s firehose with Datasift
Microsoft/YouTube | Productivity Future Vision (2011)
Pitch Interactive | Word Frequency Comparison Between the Bible and the Quran
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during October 2011:
Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation
Best of the visualisation web… September 2011
Part 7: The essential collection of visualisation resources