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 one of the latest collection from April 2012 (see part two):
American Scientist | ‘Pixels of Perish’ – Article about the challenges and opportunities facing scientific illustration in the new age of online publishing | Article
Forbes | Visualization Offers Continuous Access to Risk Information | Article
BBC News | Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload? | Article
FlowingData | Video of an incredible digital creation of the Solar System by former game developer, soon to be potentially an application | Video
Computing Now | ‘Visualization Viewpoints: In Color Perception, Size Matters’ article from noted colour expert Maureen Stone | Article
State Impact/NPR | Visualisation plots the severity of the US drought across the country over time | Interactive Visualisations
Datavisualization.ch | Pathline: Connecting Designers With Scientists | Tool Profile
Eye Magazine | “It may be a masterpiece but Google Maps is losing ground to its rivals” | Article
Neoformix | Jeff Clark visualises the flow of ‘Movement in Manhattan’ using twitter geolocation data | Visualisation
Spatial Analysis | James Cheshire’s analysis of the ‘Twitter Languages of London’ | Visualisation
New York Times | A groundbreaking 3D-vision video version of the famous graphic ‘How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters’ | Video
Drawar | Interesting article about the question ‘What is Simple?’ | Article
Tableau | Drew Skau’s guest post on the Future of Data Visualization | Article
Data Remixed | Audio interview with Lisa Zhang, one of the creators behind upcoming tool, Polychart | Audio Interview
Eager Eyes | Robert investigates the ‘Explanatory Power of Data Points’ | Article
Chartsnthings | More excellent process narrative from Kevin Quealy as he looks at the NYT’s ‘White House Visits and Democratic Donors’ visualisation | Process Narrative
Jerome Cukier | Jerome explores the potential for developing Treemaps in Tableau | Tutorial
Jason Davies | Jason develops Parallel Sets for visualising multi-dimensional categorical data using D3 | Code Tutorial
Flowing Data | Brilliantly awful graphic from the World Happiness Report | Bad Visualisation
Juice Analytics | Article which explores how ‘the people who practice data analysis and visualization have their own set of immutable conflicts’ | Article
BBC Science & Environment | Cryosat mission’s new views of polar ice | Video
YouTube | Ben Welsh’s presentation at ISOJ 2012 – Data Driven Journalism event | Video
The Guardian | Interactive: MIT researchers map energy use and building material intensity across US cities | Interactive Visualisation
FastCo Design | Trulia Spendthrift Visualizer Spots The Cheapest Houses In The Best Neighborhoods | Article/Visualisation
Datavisualization.ch | Process narrative about ‘How We Visualized the Vividness of Geneva’ – AKA the Ville Vivante project | Process Narrative
Infosthetics | Profiling the ‘City Dashboard’ which aggregates all spatial data for cities | Article/Visualisation
YouTube | John Cleese On Creativity | Video
New York Times | Article about the humble pie chart | Article
Globaia | Video which plots the expansion of the world’s transit routes | Video
Eager Eyes | Robert investigates the idea of gamification and play in the communication of data | Article
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during April:
Best of the visualisation web… March 2012 (part 1) – April 11th, 2012
Best of the visualisation web… March 2012 (part 2) – April 11th, 2012
Newly launched – The Miso Project – April 20th, 2012
Visual.ly article “10 things you can learn from NYT data visualisations” – April 2nd, 2012
Best of the visualisation web… February 2012 (part 1) – April 4th, 2012