At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter – and now Google+ too – you will see many of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s the latest collection from July 2011:
Bloom Blog | Creating new worlds
OUseful | Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network
Charlie Park | Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”
Stamen | Introducing Map Equals Yes
Datavisualization.ch | How We Visualized 23 Years of Geo Bee Contests
Datavisualization.ch | In Graphics Issue 2
Eager Eyes | Want to Make A Chart Memorable? Add Junk
Fell In Love With Data | The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit #1: Books and Other Resources
Official Google Blog | Catch the London Underground with Google Maps
Infosthetics | iPhone Fireflies: Mapping the Movements of iPhones in Europe
Infosthetics | People Movin: Revealing the Immigration Patterns in the World
InfoVis HFKB | This site presents the results of the course on Information Visualization held by Moritz Stefaner at HfK Bremen in the summer semester of 2011. For the final projects, the theme was “mapping you, mapping me”.
Drawar | Laws of Simplicity — Law 4: Learn
Drawar | Redesigning And Re-Thinking The News
Adobe Labs | Adobe Edge Preview – Motion and Interaction Design for HTML5
Londonist | Data Visualisation Shows London’s Twitter And Flickr Traffic
IEEE Spectrum | When the Problem Is the Problem
MOMA | Talk To Me Exhibition 2011
Online Journalism Blog | Cleaning data using Google Refine: a quick guide
O’Reilly Radar | Google+ is the social backbone
Smart Data Collective | Pushing the Data Visualization Envelope: an Interview with Tableau’s Ellie Fields
BBC | Outriders: Visualised journeys, interview with Nathan Yau
Dashboard Insight | Special Interview With Stephen Few, Dashboard and Data Visualization Expert
Fastco Design | Fineo Creates Tufte-Worthy Diagrams With Just A Few Clicks
Fastco Design | Infographic Of The Day: Cellphone Calls Reveal The United States’s Invisible Ties
Datablog | Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and how do we do it?
Juice Analytics | Wow vs. Ah-ha: Artists and Practitioners in Data Visualization
KD Nuggets | Ben Shneiderman talk on Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
New York Times | World Bank is Opening its Treasure Chest of Data
Data Doodle | How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff
Perceptual Edge | Data Blooms in Beauty and Truth
Scientific American | Thinking by Design: The science of everyday beauty reveals what people really like—and why
Statistical Graphics and more | Statistical Graphics vs. InfoVis (More on this next month…)
UX Matters | How Cognitive Fluency Affects Decision Making
Epic Graphic | The Data Cake
10,000 Words | A year in the life of the New York Times homepage
Columbia Journalism Review | A Visualization of Newspapers’ History
Datavisualization.ch | Movity.com (now Trulia) provide detailed information about life quality of different city districts with the TenderNoise project.
Datablog | The new world map: download it for yourself
Excel Charts | My Personal Data Visualization Library
Fell In Love With Data | How to Become a Data Visualization Freelancer | Interview with Moritz Stefaner
Eloqua | 16 Experts Answer, “What makes a great infographic?”
Guardian Environmental Blog | Map lays bare landscape of UK in intimate detail