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 two of the latest collection from June 2012 (see part one):
Eager Eyes | Famous information graphic design, Nigel Holmes, discusses his key influences | Article
Vision of Humanity | Geographic visualisation of the 2012 ‘Global Peace Index’ | Interactive Visualisation
Fast Co. Design | ’10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic’ | Article
Responsive Environments | Generative Systems : A Paradigm for Modelling Complex Adaptive Architecture | Article
Juice Analytics | ‘Introducing Chart Chooser v2!’ – the folks at Juice give the popular chooser a lick of paint | Chart Gallery
Visual.ly | Guest article by Jan Willem Tulp ‘The Process of Creating Data Visualizations’ | Article
Chart Porn | How colourblind are you? Enjoyable (but intensive) online test | Interactive
Vimeo | The Eyeo Festival 2012 vimeo channel for some of the key presentation videos | Video gallery
Stanford | A couple of years old, but worth revisiting ‘Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design’ | Paper
Moebio | Santiago Ortiz’ ‘View of the sky #1’ | Interactive Visualisation
New York Times | Showing 200 slices of wealth across the US | Interactive Visualisation
Guardian Data Store | Joe Mako creates an horizon graph in Tableau to show the US unemployment rate 1976-2012 | Interactive Visualisation
Excel Charts | Jorge creates an horizon graph in Excel to show the same US unemployment rate as above | Visualisation
This is Colossal | Global City: A Sprawling Mural Drawn on the Walls and Cabinets of a Kitchen by Deck Two | Gallery
YouTube | Presentation from Kevin Quealy of the New York Times Graphics Department from March 2011 at the Walker Art Center | Video Presentation
Simply Statistics | Interview with Amanda Cox of the New York Times | Interview
The Functional Art | An information graphics and visualization reading list | Article
Bored Panda | Incredible 3D Pencil Drawings by Nagai Hideyuki | Gallery
Domus Web | In-screen sports graphics by Max Gadney — The increasingly sophisticated visualisation of sports statistics can be extended to other fields, such as building or commerce, and help to improve the general quality of information | Article
Business Insider | Incredible Visualization Of Tropical Storm Debby Pounding Florida | Video
Fast Co. Design | Finally, Nutrition Facts That Look Good Enough To Eat | Article/Gallery
Evolution of the Web | The Evolution of the Web – The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers… | Interactive Visualisation
Data Stories | Superb Episode #8 interview with Jeff Heer | Podcast
Portent | 11 reasons your infographic isn’t an infographic | Article
Jim Vallandingham | Steps for Building a Stepper Visualization | Tutorial
Jerome Cukier | Tableau 2012 sports visualization contest entry | Interactive Visualisation/Article
Endangered Languages | The world through 3054 lenses – an online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity | Interactive Project
The Why Axis | Critique of the above project by Bryan | Critique
Presenting the top five most popular posts on Visualising Data during June:
Article: The 8 hats of data visualisation design – June 26th 2012
Talk slides: The 8 hats of data visualisation – June 21st 2012
Energy technologies visualisation for the IEA – June 25th 2012
Santiago Ortiz’s ‘Data visualization references network’ project – June 11th 2012
Best of the visualisation web… May 2012 (part 1) – June 28th 2012