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 January 2011:
Data Market | 13 thousand data sets, 100 million time series, 600 million facts | Link
A List Apart | Design Criticism and the Creative Process | Link
Junk Charts | A smarter word cloud: likes and not likes | Link
CNN Money | Best Companies To Work For 2011 | Link
Steph Abegg | Supercenters, Hamburgers, and Coffee: Using density-equalizing cartograms to display the distribution of Walmarts, McDonalds, and Starbucks in the US | Link
CERN Document Server | New trends in data analysis and visualization on the web | Link
Excel Charts | Data visualization hierarchy of needs | Link
Fell In Love With Data | Demystifying cargo cult visualization: You cannot visualize 3 variables by mixing 3 colors | Link
Scientific American | Words, pictures, and the visual display of scientific information: Getting back to the basics of information design | Link
David B Sparks | High dimension visualization in Political Science | Link
R&D Mag | How can data visualization change technology? | Link
Fell In Love With Data | How do you visualize too much data? | Link
GE Blogs | How much CO2 is created by… | Link
Flowing Data | In investing, timing is everything | Link
AIGA | Video of Jonathan Harris “Cold:Bold” at ‘Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference’ | Link
Noah Brier | On Infographics | Link
Huffington Post | Who gives the best info? A short history of Information Design | Link
GE Blogs | Powering the kitchen | Link
Eager Eyes | Research: How to tell stories with data? | Link
TedTalks | TEDxGoteborg – Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Link
TedTalks | TEDMED – Thomas Goetz: It’s time to redesign medical data | Link
UX Magazine | Social Seen: Analyzing and visualizing data from social networks | Link
Statistical Graphics and More | Data analysis of yesteryear | Link
Core 77 | Subaru on how to design a mediocre car | Link
Zero Intelligence Agents | Swallowing the Academic “Red Pill” | Link
Dashboard Spy | The insidious infographic | Link
TYPOGRAPH | Scale and rhythm | Link
Perceptual Edge | Designing with the Mind in Mind: A brief book review | Link
Perceptual Edge | Simplicity vs. Complexity: Design goals | Link
Well-Formed Data | Notablia – Visualising deletion discussions on Wikipedia | Link
Harvard Vision Lab | Silencing is a new illusion that shows it’s hard to notice when moving objects change | Link
ReadWriteWeb | How a science journalist created a data visualization to show the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake | Link
Datavisualization.ch | Inspirational vintage infographics | Link
10,000 Words | 7 Innovative online maps | Link
Smart Data Collective | For data visualization, circles don’t cut it | Link
Cool Hunting | Daytum iPhone App | Link
Wired | Stories that work in 150 seconds | Link
Infosthetics | Let’s debate the issue of aesthetics in data visualization… on television | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Visualization deconstructed: New York Times “Mapping America” | Link
Jonathan MacDonald | The fallacy of data bubble ignorance | Link