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 the latest collection from November 2012:
Guardian | US electoral compass: how do political priorities change from state to state? | Interactive Visualisation
Binder Full of Burgers | Parody of Romney’s ‘Binder full of women’ gaffe, here we see a visualisation of the US election using burgers, fries and occasionally ketchup | Gallery
Slate | We’ve all seen and played with the design, now here’s the project narrative for the NYT’s ‘512 Paths to the White House’ | Narrative
New York Times | A couple more gems from the NYT graphics department during the election, firstly ‘What will swing the swing states?’… | Video/Visualisation
New York Times | …and ‘How Obama won re-election’ | Animated Visualisation
Guardian | US electoral compass: how do political priorities change from state to state? | Interactive Visualisation
Charts ‘n Things | Finally from the NYT, a snap taken of their strategy board on the night of the election itself | Image
Time | “Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win” | Article
Simply Statistics | “The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to [MIS]lead with data” | Article/Rogue Gallery
XKCD | “To surprise of pundits, numbers continue to be best system for determining which of two things is larger” | Cartoon
Senate Charts | To end this run of political-related pieces, here’s some delightfully dumb stuff from the halls of the US congress | Gallery
Visual.ly | Visualization in crises (don’t misread, the field’s not in crisis) | Article/Gallery
Scientific American | Jan Willem Tulp’s work for SciAM – ‘RFID Tags Track Possible Outbreak Pathways in the Hospital’ | Visualisation
AViz | An inspiring collection of (no electronics included) passive, physical visualizations | Gallery
Chrome Experiments | “100,000 stars is an interactive visualisation of the stellar neighbourhood created for Google Chrome | Interactive Visualisation
Datawrapper | To celebrate the new version of Datawrapper, here’s an explanation of the technology being used | Article
Perceptual Edge | Review of Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise” | Book Review
Amazon | Speaking of books, here’s the new book from Hunter Whitney “Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data” | Book
O’Reilly | More book-related goodness, this time from D3 hero Scott Murray “Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing With D3” | Book
The Functional Art | And here’s Alberto’s review of Bill Ferster’s new book “Interactive Visualisation: Insight Through Enquiry” | >Book Review
BBC | Visualisation technology used to evidence response from vegetative patient who says he’s “not in pain” | Article/Video
Vimeo | Video summary of the Visualized conference, held in NYC in November | Video
Perceptual Edge | Best Practices for Scaling Sparklines in Dashboards | Article
Wiley | “We are proud to present in collaboration with TED a curated series of talks plus specially commissioned educational support materials.” | Articles/Videos
MIT TechTV | Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century | Video
Visual Loop | Talking with… Jaime Serra – “Exclusive interview with one of the most respected infographic designers in the world” | Interview
Creative Applications | FIFA Development Globe – visualising FIFA’s work across the globe | Project/Article
OpenVis Conf | Announcing the OpenVis Conf ‘The Open Web Data Visualisation Conference’ taking place in Boston in May 2013 | Article
13pt | Jonathan discusses ‘An Education for Information Design, c. 1992’ based on retrieved notes from an Edward Tufte course in 1992 | Article
Data Pointed | “Above Sea Level” – maps of urban elevation and population | Visualisation
Graphics Info | Wages in Hong Kong | Visualisation
Fathom | Visualising the emotional life of books | Visualisation
Flowing Data | With Christmas just around the corner, here’s Nathan’s data gift guide | Article
The Globe and Mail | “What’s your take on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s ouster?” – a heavily discussed piece, is it a rip off or an ode to the NYT Obama sentiment matrix? I think the latter… | Interactive Visualisation
The Design of Understanding | Announcing the line up of speakers for the The Design of Understanding 2013 event | Article
Post Graphics | Great to see this, “Interactive graphics, maps and data visualization by the Washington Post. See all of our behind the scenes posts, or just check out all our recent graphics.” | New Site
New York Times | Profile of uber-curator Maria Popova of Brain Pickings | Article
Vimeo | “A day in Berlin – public transit visualization” | Video
Science Visualization | Breakdown of different techniques for visualisation scientific subject matter, particularly focusing on things that are plotted in circles | Article
Ghostweather | Lynn Cherny’s talk at Strata NYC 2012 about Visualizing Networks ‘Beyond the hairball’ | Presentation Slides
Speaker Deck | Moritz Stefaner’s talk for the Visualizing Marathon 2012 event – Designer Q&A | Presentation Slides
The Functional Art | Alberto Cairo’s talk for the Visualizing Marathon 2012 event – Designer Q&A | Presentation Slides
Vimeo | Introducing SkataViz, an experimental prototype using an iPhone attached to a stakeboard to record its motion and visualize its movement | Video
Fathom | Article about language and labels for colours – “That’s green, well maybe more blueish. You mean Grue?” | Article
Nodebox | Tutorial for creating data visualisations using Nodebox | Tutorial
Google Groups | Lynn Cherny’s inspired decision to launch a dedicated Google Group for collating jobs/postings/opportunities in one accessible place | Listings
Periscopic | “How We Graphed $3.86 Billion in Grantmaking Efforts for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation” | Project Narrative
Eye Magazine | Info design for children – “The children’s books produced by Isotype combined child-centred focus with technical accuracy” | Article
Zeit Online | Google translate suggests this has something to do with ‘Job miracle for all?’, that makes no sense to me but this German visualisation based on an interactive heatmap/matrix chart certainly looks like it is impressive | Interactive Visualisation
New York Times | Great use of small multiple, interactive area charts to show ‘How the Tax Burden Has Changed” | Interactive Visualisation
Eager Eyes | “A Scholarly Discussion with Andrew Gelman and Anthony Unwin” | Article
Dashing D3.js | Huge tutorial site for learning about D3.js | Tutorial/Site
Census.Gov | Not sure about the overall quality but some interesting insight into the visualisations being produced for the US Census | Gallery
The Atlantic | Sketching Out ‘Psycho’: Production Storyboards From 15 Beloved Films | Article/Gallery
XKCD | “Pet Peeve #208: Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps” | Cartoon