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 one):
Nieman Journalism Lab | Article that proposes ‘Word clouds considered harmful’ | Article
Forbes | A Behind the Scenes Look at Visual.ly | Interview
Data Pointed | Charting the last fifty years of rainfall in downtown San Francisco | Visualisation
Sizes | What Size Am I? | Interactive Visualisation
Poynter | 10 tools that can help data journalists do better work, be more efficient | Article
O’Reilly Radar | Why data visualization matters – The best data visualizations expose something new | Article
Vimeo | Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle | Video
Charts n Things | Before and After: Analyzing ESPN “SportsCenter” Transcripts | Process Narrative
Scientific American | The Evolution of a Scientific American Information Graphic: Stellar Life Cycle | Article
Brain Pickings | Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing & Daily Creative Routine | Article
Google Docs | Lev Manovich report on ‘Innovative visualizations of temporal processes in culture’ | Report
Eager Eyes | Another Metaphor for Visualization: Writing | Article
Visualization Viewpoints | Scientific Storytelling Using Visualization | Article
Forbes | Are Grid Lines Useful or Chartjunk? | Article
Telling Information | ‘Magic in Graphs’ | Article
The Why Axis | LA Times’ Senti-meter Inches Towards Oscar Predictions via Twitter | Critique
BBC News: Science & Environment | Ocean trench: Take a dive 11,000m down | Visualisation
Fast Co. Design | A Solar Company’s Amazing Infographics Are Powered By The Sun | Video/Article
Revolutions | Creating beautiful maps with R (link to other sites’ Spanish tutorials) | Tutorial
Neoformix | Jeff Clark’s first in a series of attempts to visualise the ‘Data Visualization Field on Twitter’ | Visualisation
Feltron | The 2010/2011 Feltron Biennial Report | Report
The Why Axis | Feltron Annual Reports Start to Feel Like Annual Reports | Critique
Infosthetics | Ranking the Autonomy of Universities in Europe | Interactive Visualisation
Webecset | Krisztina Szücs’ impressive website/portfolio | Site
Diana Lange | Diana Lange’s equally impressive website/portfolio | Site
Fell In Love With Data | Telling a story doesn’t tell the whole story | Article
Brain Pickings | A Brief History of Children’s Picture Books and the Art of Visual Storytelling | Article/Gallery
The JIT | Wind Motion Patterns | Video
Knight Garage | ‘Times editor says media not driven to data journalism’ | Interview
Twitter Friends Map | The clue is in the title! | Interactive Visualisation
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