At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.
Here’s part two of the latest collection from March 2012 (see part one):
Junk Charts | Discussing high-effort graphics | Critique
Flowing Data | Innovation History via 6,000 Pages of Annual Reports | Visualisation
The Telegraph | Budget 2012 graphic: Where does my tax money go? | Interactive Visualisation
Stamen | Surging Seas: sea level rise in your community | Article/Project
FastCo Design | NASA Creates Picture Of Our Night Sky, Using 2.7 Million Photos | Article
Forbes | Information Visualization: Cartography for the 21st Century – interview with Manuel Lima | Interview
Guardian Data Blog | New York’s energy use mapped in patchwork infographic | Map Visualisation
Ben Willers | You are all explorers now | Visualisation/Article
Style | Behind the Lines: Building ‘Guantánamo Detainees’ | Visualisation Narrative
Big Think | The World’s Largest Atlas: Cheers Bests Klencke | Mapping
Guardian Data Store | Nasa’s animations: from the perpetual oceans to the surface of the sun and moon | Article/Visualisations
Hint.fm | ‘This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US’ | Mapping/Visualisation
SND | Twenty-five infographics lessons from Malofiej 20 | Article
Periscopic | Recent HTML5 Data Visualizations: Specifically Designed for the iPad | Projects
Mashable | Financial Times Unveils 70-Foot Interactive Wall in Grand Central Terminal | Visualisation
Jack Hudson | Infographic project produced for UK TV Channel 4 | Infographic
Interactive Infographics | Datavis in documentary | Article
Sansumbrella | “Drawing Water is a constructed landscape shaped by the relationship between where water falls and where it is consumed within the United States” | Visualisation
SND | Full winners list: SND Best of Digital Design | Article
Guardian Data Blog | What is a Data Scientist? | Article
Infosthetics | Showing Where Tweets Actually ‘Go’ in 3D | Interactive Visualisation
Stamen | Behind the scenes of the new watercolor mapping tiles | Process Narrative
TEDTalks | Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story | Video
Software Studies | Lev Manovich, “How to Follow Software Users? (Digital Humanities, Software Studies, Big Data)” | Paper
Stanford University | Infographics for a Post-Flash World | Slideshow
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during March:
Personal reflections on Malofiej 20 – March 25th, 2012
‘Visual.ly Create’ – Infographic design automation tool – March 12th, 2012
Slides from my Malofiej talk – March 26th, 2012
Visualizing.org Sprint: An experiment in collaborative visualisation – March 1st, 2012
Malofiej, Big Data Con and other site news – March 15th, 2012