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 August 2011:
All Things D | Vizualize.me Aims to Shake Up the Resume With Data Beautification
Datalicious | Australian Census data visualised with new Tableau 6.1 dark maps feature reveals a severe man drought
Datavisualization.ch | 2011 MTV #VMA Twitter Tracker
Derek Watkins | Posted: Visualizing US expansion through post offices
Design Mind | The Never-Ending Story – Artist Jonathan Harris’s new digital platform aims to help people find a signal amid social media noise.
The Statistics Forum | [Round 1…] Robert Kosara’s Infovis example illustrates the Chris Rock effect…
Eager Eyes | [Round 2…] Information Visualization vs. Statistical Graphics
Andrew Gelman | [Round 3…] Infovis, infographics, and data visualization: Where I’m coming from, and where I’d like to go
Design Process | In this post, I will discuss the similarities between infographics and data visualizations, the differences as well as why it may or may not matter to really understand the distinction.
Eager Eyes | Above All, Do No Harm!
Well-Formed Data | On the role of bacon in visualzation
Fell In Love With Data | The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit #2: Visualization Tools
Flowing Data | Generic terms for streams mapped
Jonathan Stray | Visualizing communities
Drawar | Laws of Simplicity – Law 5: Differences
Flowing Data | Google Map Maker edits in real-time
Pentagram | Inside The New York Times Building
Processing.js | Processing.js 1.3.0 is released
O’Reilly Radar | The nexus of data, art and science is where the interesting stuff happens
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels | They Come for the Frosting but They Remember the Cake
Sexperience Channel 4 | Welcome to The Sexperience 1000, an interactive journey through the sexual experiences and preferences of one thousand British individuals
O’Reilly Radar | Data science is a pipeline between academic disciplines
The Monkey Cage | Does blogging help your professional reputation?
422.com | Britain from Above
ABC News | Australia, a nation transformed
BBC News | 3G mobile data network crowd-sourcing survey by BBC News
The Computus Engine | Links to Temporal visualisation
Design Council | A profile of Margaret Calvert, designer of the UK’s road signing system
Digital Arts | Illustration by numbers: an in-depth guide to creating infographics
Flickr | A History of the War
ONS | Interactive Content from Office for National Statistics
Perceptual Edge | Dyslexics Could Be Our Most Talented Data Visualizers
University of Chicago Press | On this site the University of Chicago Press is pleased to present the first two volumes of the History of Cartography in PDF format
Smart Planet | The secrets to successful data visualization
Visual Complexity | Functional Beauty
Visualizing.org | Visualizing Marathon – A global series of 24-hour student data visualization competitions
Visualizing.org | Q&A with Wes Grubbs
Drawar | Laws of Simplicity – Law 5: Differences
Gizmodo | Watch The Virginia Earthquake Spread Across Twitter
YouTube | Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
Fast Co Design | Adobe Muse Lets You Design Websites Without Knowing Code
Infosthetics | Cinemetrics: Visualizing Movies
vis4.net/labs | Gregor Aisch’s portfolio
Imp Awards | Movie posters gallery
Fast Co Design | How 3M Gave Everyone Days Off and Created an Innovation Dynamo
Jerome Cukier | From protovis to d3
Jerome Cukier | d3: adding stuff. And, oh, understanding selections
Jerome Cukier | d3: scales, and color.
Dataist | Campaign funding times two
Wired | Thermal imaging can be used to steal PIN numbers
O’Reilly Radar | Visualizing hunger in the Horn of Africa
CNN Defining America | Explore the country by the numbers
The Guardian | Food is the ultimate security need, new map shows
New York Times | The New York Times hurricane tracker
MSNBC | The MSNBC hurricane tracker from Stamen