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 you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.
Here’s part one of the latest collection from February 2012 (see part two):
Ben Goldacre, Twitter | Favourite tweet of the past month | Tweet
10,000 Words | 10 Ways The New York Times Tells Stories Through Reader Content | Collection
Guardian Datablog | 14 years of US weather animated in 33 minutes | Video
Clearly and Simply | Visualising 6 world famous paintings with Tableau Software | Gallery/Tutorial
TechInAsia | All Japan’s Earthquakes in 2011, Visualized in One Startling Video | Video
Forbes | Naomi B Robbins article about ‘Misleading Graphs: Figures Not Drawn to Scale’ | Article
BBC News Magazine | ‘Data scientist carves out new life as sculptor’ interview/video with Edward Tufte | Video
BBC News Education & Family | MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course | Article
Vis.Bengler.No | 300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by their journeys could be compressed into one short animation, what would it look like? | Video/Narrative
New York times: Sunday Review | ‘The Age of Big Data’ | Article
Brain Pickings | Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline | Article/Gallery
Spatial Analysis | Article that deals with… ‘Finding ways to effectively map population data is a big issue in spatial data visualization’ | Article
Digital Urban | Data visualisation of 10,000 Taxi’s in Manhatten | Video
New York Times: Politics | Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal | Interactive Visualisation
Brain Pickings | Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation | Video
WE Forum | Video with Adam Bly, Seed Media, about ‘Gaining Understanding from Data Visualisation’ | Video
Eager Eyes | Article about network visualisations and looking at ‘Graphs beyond the hairball’ | Article
The Creators Project | Guest Column: Lev Manovich Takes Us From Reading To Pattern Recognition | Article
O’Reilly Radar | How to create a visualization – Pete Warden walks through the steps behind his latest Facebook visualization. | Tutorial
SND | Judges pick 5 of the World’s Best-Designed Newspapers | Awards
Just to Clarify | Stories are the Last Mile in Big Data | Article
LITTLE BIG DETAILS: | A wonderful, daily dose of UI inspiration | Site
Meaning in Communication | Jakob Jochmann discusses ‘Form & Function & Perception’ | Article
Fast Co. Design | ‘Mind-Boggling Digital Portrait Uses Video Clips As Paint’ | Video
Graphic Sociology | Partnership financing blooms? Visualizing partnership funding | Critique
Infosthetics | Revealing the Energy Consumption of Each Building in New York | Interactive Visualisation
Stamen | Process behind their recent work for Esquire ‘Where Does the Money Go?’ | Design Process
Understanding Graphics | The Visual Language of Dashed Lines | Article
Fast Co. Design | This Thermometer Lets You Actually Feel The Temp Outside | Article/Video
Sociable Physics | Twitter data – visualised by our MRes students | Video Portfolio
Perceptual Edge | Should Data Visualizations Be Beautiful? | Article
Alex Reisner | What’s the Matter With Chernoff Faces? | Article
Tableau | Which chart of graph is right for you? | White Paper
Fast Co. Design | Why “Infographic Thinking” Is The Future, Not A Fad | Article
Wolfram Blog | Launching a Democratization of Data Science | Article
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during February:
Bio.Diaspora: Visualising interactions between populations and travel – February 2nd, 2012
Datawrapper: Open Source data visualisation creator – February 24th, 2012
Best of the visualisation web… January 2012 (part 1) – February 17th, 2012
Best of the visualisation web… January 2012 (part 2) – February 17th, 2012
KeyLines: New network visualisation tool – February 7th, 2012