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 December 2010:
Wired | “.WWF” The tree-friendly file format that can’t be printed | Link
Smashing Magazine | “What Font Should I Use?” Five principles for choosing and using typefaces | Link
The Guardian | Best apps: our experts pick 50 of the most dazzling, useful and novel | Link
Design Shack | Design discussion: brand advertising vs. promotional marketing | Link
David B Sparks | Demonstration of electoral ‘Marimekko’ (or tree map) plots | Link
Wall Street Journal | Everything the Internet knows about me (because I asked it to) | Link
Loose Wire Blog | Facebook’s ‘Locality of Friendship’ | Link
Impure | Gapminder, redeveloped using Impure| Link
In Graphics | In Graphics – ‘A magazine for visual people’ | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Six months after the publication of the “What is data science?” paper | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Quick starts for charts| Link
O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Where to find data | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Strata Gems: Write your own visualizations | Link
Core 77 | Thinking of doing a design PhD? | Link
xPlane | Why the office is still a great place to work | Link
Flowing Data | Amanda Cox (NYT) on data graphics and stuff | Link
Creative Review | Amnesty’s guerrila campaign makes the invisible visible | Link
Online Journalism Blog | Visualising data with the Datapress WordPress plugin | Link
Impure | Impure second video-tutorial: Workspaces and Impure code | Link
IBM | Data visualization with Processing, Part 1: An introduction to the language and environment | Link
New York Times | Interactive puzzles to test your insight | Link
New York Times | Designing election results on the iPad | Link
Discover Magazine | Live not by visualization alone… | Link
Flowing Data | 10 best data visualization projects of the year – 2010 | Link
New York Times | ‘Mapping America: Every City, Every Block’ – showing household income distribution | Link
41 Latitude | Why do Google Maps’s city labels seem much more “readable” than those of its competitors? | Link
Wall Street Journal | “What They Know” series – the data collected and shared by 101 popular apps on iPhone and Android phones | Link
DataVisualization.ch | The Google Books Ngram Viewer | Link
Junk Charts | Handling multi-level data in multiple charts | Link