At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter you will see many of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s the latest collection from August 2010:
Advertising Age | Why data visualization is about to become very important for your brand | Link
Creative Review | Interesting article about ‘liking’ | Link
TedTalks | Video of David McCandless’ recent TedTalk at the Oxford event | Link
Science Notes 2010 | Computer scientists have created tools to help people visualize information and draw meaningful conclusions – Olga Kuchment charts their course | Link
Core77 | Why great ideas can fail – by Don Norman | Link
O’reilly Radar | Redesiging the New York subway map | Link
Creative Review | The Times does info-graphics for iPads | Link
Eager Eyes | The difference between infographics and visualization | Link
Wired | Data information: How visual tools can transform lives | Link
Flowing Data | Exploring the reach of Firefox | Link
Eager Eyes | Review of Cornelia Dean’s book “Am I making myself clear?” | Link
London Datastore | From journalists to interpreters – is data changing the way we work? | Link
ACM Queue | A Conversation with Jeff Heer, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viégas | Link
Adaptive Path Blog | Beyond “I hate green:” Managing Productive Visual Design Reviews | Link
How Big Really? | BBC dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of your choice | Link
Junk Charts | Book review: Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis| Link
Flowing Data | Browse street-side with Microsoft Street Slide | Link
Juice Analytics | Applying a chart makeover to Fed IT Dashboard | Link
Wired | Data information: How visual tools can transform lives | Link
Designing with data | Data visualization “milestones” | Link
FORA.tv | Video of John Maeda talking about the “Laws of Simplicity for Design and Business” | Link
The Guardian | Growth forecasts of a collapsing economy: visualising the story of a recession | Link
The Guardian | Hollywood’s new colour craze – how the practice of tweaking the palette of films in post-production has exploded | Link
Flowing Data | How data will improve health care | Link
Lost Garden | Visualising the creative process | Link
Flowing Data | A second talk from Martin Wattenberg about data and visualization | Link
Computer World | Web multimedia: 6 reasons why Flash isn’t going away | Link
The Learning Coach | Using graphics to improve learning | Link
Visual Journalism | The next big thing in infographics – five criterias and a solution | Link
Matt.Might | The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. | Link
Urban Daddy | The craziest dashboard I’ve seen in a while | Link
Technology Story | The Artist, the Geek, and the Business Expert | Link
A VisWeek Workshop | Using visualization to create narratives and engage audiences | Link
Stamen | Knight News Challenge update | Link
Smashing Magazine | Showcase of delicious coffee websites | Link
Creative Review | Dalton Ghetti’s graphite micro-sculptures | Link
Core77 | GIFs that explain basic mechanisms | Link
Infosthetics | Prologue: The Interactive Holographics in Iron Man 2 | Link
Datavisualization.ch | Visualizing the health care reform | Link
10000 words | The journalists’ guide to analytics| Link
10000 words | The importance of sketching and why you should be doing it | Link
UX Booth | The complete beginner’s guide to design research | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Lies, damn lies, and visualizations: The intersection of data science and journalism | Link
Datavisualization.ch | How we visualized america’s food and drink spending | Link