At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.
Here’s part two of the latest collection from December 2011 (see part one):
Smashing Magazine | The Messy Art of UX Sketching – “I hear a lot of people talking about the importance of sketching when designing or problem-solving, yet it seems that very few people actually sketch” | Article
Urban Movements | New project mapping taxi routes in London | Static Visualisation
Visual.ly | “2D’s Company, 3D’s a Crowd” – another excellent blog post from visual.ly exploring the principles behind flaws with 3D representations of 2D data | Type
Excel Charts | “Data visualization is about finding and communicating patterns. But here is an often-forgotten truism: patterns are not some kind of ready-to-wear knowledge” | Article
BBC Technology News | UK Government opens up more data for free | Article
Business Week | Correlation or Causation? Correlation may not imply causation, but it sure can help us insinuate it – some humorous examples that explore this often misused statistical concept | Statistics
Guardian Datablog | 2011: the year in data, journalism (and charts) | Collection
Brainpickings | An Illustrated Visualization of What Can Happen in a Single Second | Book Preview
Core77 | First in a great series of profiles of a series of brilliant artists/illustrators famed for their cut-away/cross-section works | Illustrations
Guardian | 2011 – the news year in review | Interactive Visualisation
Infosthetics | Citeology: Visualizing the Relationships between Research Publications | Interactive Visualisation
Vis4.net | Let’s Keep Symbol Maps Clean And Tidy | Tutorial
Wired | Spineless Classics turns whole books into graphic art | Visualisations
FastCo Design | “Designers Behind Facebook Timeline: 5 Keys To Creating A UI With Soul” – Article/Interview with Nick Felton and Joey Flynn | Article/Interview
CR Blog | Honda goes ‘Off the Grid’ – “The latest work for Honda by Wieden + Kennedy is an interactive online experience that takes its cues from the way Street View allows users to move and look around a 360 degree photographed environment” | Advertising
Flink Labs | Ben Hosken’s Top 5 in 2011 and outlook for 2012 | Review/Collection
The Why Axis | Google Zeitgeist Misses the Mark for 2011 – a much more in depth analysis (than I provided!) of the failure of the Google Zeitgeist visualisation | Critique
On Goals Scored | “This is a blog of football things that are interesting to look at. I usually post infographics or datagraphics that I have made. I also post about football posters, crests and the like” | Site
Data Remixed | How Data Visualization is Like Chess | Type
Nodebox Workshop | The output of the projects produced during the workshop “Dataviz: Visual Repesentation of Complex Phenomena” held in Torino during December 2011, Torino” | Collections
Wired | How Does the Brain Perceive Art? | Theory
Boston Globe | Brothers David and Yakir Reshef develop a new statistical tools “that rapidly flags patterns and identifies correlations in huge databases, from sports statistics to online social networks to the genomes being churned out by science laboratories” | Article
Greg Judelman | MSc Thesis – Knowledge Visualization: Problems and Principles for Mapping the Knowledge Space | Thesis
Perceptual Edge | Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles for Good Design | Article
MK Web | The wonderful and endlessly interesting site of Martin Krzywinski | Site
Guardian | England riots: mapping the distance from home to offence | Animated Visualisation
Flowing Data | Microsoft continues to be responsible for some of the worst product advertising, here trying to appeal to those who want explosions with their visual presentations | Video
American Copy Editors Society | More classic cock ups from the Fox News graphics portfolio | Bloopers
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during the past month:
The worst visualisation I’ve seen this year? Google Zeitgeist 2011 – December 16th, 2011
10 significant visualisation developments: July to December 2011 – December 19th, 2011
O’Reilly Strata Conference, Santa Clara 2012 (20% reader discount) – December 9th, 2011
Best of the visualisation web… November 2011 (part 1) – December 5th, 2011
Best of the visualisation web… November 2011 (part 2) – December 5th, 2011