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 and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.
Here’s part two of the latest collection from November 2011 (see part one):
From now on I am going to split these posts into two parts due to the sheer volume of excellent content that keeps emerging each month – this makes it less overwhelming for you as a reader and me as the curator!
New York Times | Public Opinion and the Occupy Movement – New York Times asks readers “What are your thoughts about the movement? Do you agree with the protesters’ methods?” | Interactive Visualisation
Vis4.net | Rendering SVG Country Maps in Python – Part three of a four part programming tutorial package to recreate the Piwick Maps in SVG | Programming Tutorial
Worry Dream | Responses to “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design” | Design Article
Vis4.net | Saying Goodbye to Red-Green Color Scales – discussing diverging colour scales used in mapping| Visualisation Article
blprnt | Selected works from Jer Thorp between 2009 – 2011 | Visualisation Gallery
Core 77 | To celebrate Chevy’s 100th birthday, designer Christian Annyas collates an image series “Chevrolet Speedometer Design: Design evolution from 1941 to 2011” | Gallery
Vimeo | Shan Carter of the NY Times gives a talk at Trulia for the Data Visualization meetup group at an event around Telling Stories with Data | Video
Bissantz | Simply wrong is downright difficult – “We say that most people understand linear scales… incorrectly. And only logarithmic scales portray things correctly. Whether people understand why this is the case does not change the fact. Here’s the proof…” | Visualisation Design Article
Eager Eyes | You Only See Colors You Can Name | Research Article
Sociable Physics | Complex complexity – reflecting on Warren Weaver’s mission statement for the sciences, published in American Scientist in 1948. | Research Article
Stamen | VPRO: Custom Cartography and The Netherlands From Above – an interactive map of the Netherlands to accompany the forthcoming broadcast of a series of shows about this fascinating tiny country | Interactive Visualisation
Datavisualization.ch | Launching ‘Substratum’ — A Series of Inspirational Interviews | Interview Series
Flowing Data | Telling Stories with Data – VisWeek 2011 – sharing some highlights and take-aways from the talks and discussions that took place throughout the workshop | Event Write-up
Perceptual Edge | Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties? Provocation Without a Cause | Research Article
Infosthetics | The Most Interesting Papers at the Infovis Conference (VisWeek 2011) | Event Write-up
O’Reilly Radar | The number one trait you want in a data scientist – DJ Patil on the traits of data scientists and how data science will evolve within companies | Data Science Article
Drawar | The Secrets to Creative Thinking | Design Article
The Why Axis | Can Visualization Untangle the Eurozone? Assessing he New York Times graphic to convey the scope and complexity of this issue | Visualisation Critique
The Why Axis | Making Music Visual: Interact with music history, taxonomy and anatomy | Visualisation Critique
Sociable | Twitter creates once in a lifetime “11.11.11″ visualisation | Animated Visualisation
Perceptual Edge | Review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ | Book Review
Eager Eyes | Visualization is growing up | Visualisation Article
Data Pointed | “Viz The Seasons” Ken Murphy’s History Of The Sky, a calendar-style time-lapse chronicle of the heavens above San Francisco | Video/Animated Visualisation
New York Times | What Are the Chances for Republicans? – “How would the strength of the economy next year affect each candidate’s chances of defeating President Barack Obama? Nate Silver models the likelihood of each candidate winning the popular” | Interactive Visualisation
Wired | Wish List: Sublime Gifts for the Design Nerd | Product Gallery
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | Work in progress: The Data Digitizer – a tool for transcribing documents and tables that are not currently machine-readable | Data Article
Flowing Data | xkcd: Cost of everything – charting the things that money pays for, from the item off the dollar menu all the way up to the total estimated economic productivity of the human race | Static Visualisation
Drawar | World Record 3D Street Art | Street Art
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during November 2011:
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