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. Here’s the latest collection from September 2014.
Visualisations/Infographics
Includes static and interactive visualisation examples, infographics and galleries/collections of relevant imagery.
PolicyViz | Developed by Jon Schwabish and Severino Ribecca, the Graphic Continuum poster is “a view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data”
Ben Schmidt | ‘Bookworm: Simpsons’ – “Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons by episode, season, or even time within in the episode.”
TheUpshot | Updated weekly: ‘Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S’
Periscopic | ‘A World of Terror: Exploring the reach, frequency and impact of terrorism around the world’
Christoph Viau | ‘The Big List of
D3.js Examples’
ProPublica | Multi-media interactive project called ‘Losing Ground’ – “In 50 years, most of southeastern Louisiana not protected by levees will be part of the Gulf of Mexico”
New York Times | ‘342,000 Swings Later, Derek Jeter Calls It a Career’
Colors of Motion | Exploring the use of colour in movies
The Independent | ’47 per cent of London is green space: Is it time for our capital to become a national park?’
FastCo Design | ‘App Turns NYC Subway Maps Into Interactive Data Visualizations’
Thomson Reuters | ‘Heavy metal
pollution in China’
Scientific American | ‘How Nations Fare in PhDs by Sex’
I-Remember | ‘Sharing memories to fight Alzheimers disease’ – the site starts to disappear unless new memories are added
FastCo Design | ‘Mankind’s Greatest Architectural Achievements Since Prehistory’
Thomson Reuters | The first of several projects about the voting during the Scotland Independence Referendum…
BBC | …another one showing the final results
Guardian | …and another one from the Guardian
Washington Post | ‘Since 1978, Congress has worked a full week 14 percent of the time’
Washington Post | Great long-form digital reporting ‘The night bullets hit the White House — and the Secret Service didn’t know’
Data to Display | ‘The Premier League in small multiples’
The Vizioner | ‘Visualizing A Problem from Hell – The Effect of War and Genocide’
Under the Raedar | ‘A national map of cycling to work’
Stefanie Posavec | ‘I was commissioned by the V&A alongside 19 other designers and illustrators to illustrate a section of a short story written by Hari Kunzru’
Infosthetics | ‘Visualizing Publicly Available US Government Data Online’
New York Times | ‘Ebola Facts: Where Are the Most New Cases Being Reported?’ (updated daily)
Gizmodo | ‘What’s the Best Visualization of the Internet You’ve Ever Seen?’
Articles
The emphasis on these items is that they are less about visualisation images and are more article-focused, so includes discussion, discourse, interviews and videos
Scientific American | ‘Art and Science of the Moiré’
Tow Center | ‘Behind “Losing Ground” II: Q&A with Scott Klein and Al Shaw of ProPublica’
Eager Eyes | ‘Beyond the Knee-Jerk Reaction’ – my joint-favourite article of the month from Robert Kosara
Junk Charts | ‘Exquisite chart by-of-for academics’
Huffington Post | ‘False Visualizations: When Journalists Get Data Viz Wrong’
Juice | ‘Fantasy Football is Teaching Data Fluency’
NewScientist | ‘Imagination: Our greatest skill’
Washington Post | ‘The states most threatened by trade’
MediaKar | ‘Interview with Bloomberg insider: How things work at Visual Data team’
Michael Babwahsingh | ‘The game of knowledge’
Eager Eyes | ‘My Favorite Charts’
Harvard | Paper: ‘UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets’
GeekWire | Summary of Tableau CEO Christian Chabot Keynote on why data analysts are like artists: “The creative problem solvers of the modern era”
Sheila Pontis | ‘The Power of Information’
VizNinja | ‘Thoughts from (Paul’s first) Tableau Conference 2014’
Learning & Development
These links cover presentations, tutorials, learning opportunities, case-studies, how-tos etc.
FastCo Design | ‘How Much Should You Charge For Design Work?’
FastCo Design | …and ‘How Top Startups Pay Designers’
DataRemixed | ‘How to Make Small Multiple Maps in Tableau’
Datavisualization.ch | My other joint-favourite article of the month about how Interactive Things created a series of refined color scales for interactive charts and visualizations
CartoDB | ‘How-to guides: Learning Data Visualization’
Data Revelations | ‘Likert vs. Likert on a Scatterplot’
YouTube | ‘Isabel Meirelles – Learning from Constraints in Visualizations of Information’
YouTube | ‘From Storytelling to Storylistening: John Maeda (Future of StoryTelling 2014)’
ProPublica | ‘Podcast: How ‘Wee Things’ Make a Big Difference in Design’
Relief Shading | ‘The Relief Shading website is intended to give cartographers, map enthusiasts, and students in-depth information about shaded relief.’
YouTube | ‘Windmap; an animated map of global wind’ – talk by Cameron Beccario at The Graphical Web 2014
Lynda | ‘Data Visualization Fundamentals with Bill Shander’
JSConf | ‘Dominikus Baur: Web-based data visualization on mobile devices’
Subject News
Includes announcements within the field, brand new sites, new (to me) sites, new books and generally interesting developments.
FT Baseline | New weekly feature on the FT Data blog covering the topic of sports statistics
100 Years of Brinton | Andy Cotgreave’s ode to Willard C Brinton, marking 100 years since he (Brinton, not Cotgreave) wrote the first book on data visualisation best practice
Tableau | Some amazing data art concepts in this: ‘Destination Data – Viz as Art contest finalists & voting’
Amazon | New book: ‘Infographics Designers’ Sketchbooks’, by Steven Heller and Rick Landers’
Google Books | Newly discovered classic book: ‘Information Design: An Introduction’, by Rune Pettersson
The Register | ‘iOS 8 release: WebGL now runs everywhere. Hurrah [and a small bit of oh boy] for 3D graphics!’
Web Pro News | ‘LinkedIn discontinues InMaps visualization tool’
FastCo Design | ‘New Data Visualization Tool Helps You Fight The Man’
FastCo Design | ‘Pioneering Design Consultancy Berg To Shut Down’
Tabletop Whale | New Site: Wonderful blog demonstrating the very best of science illustration, including some amazing animated infographic work
Tableau Wannabe Podcast | New Podcast: Introducing the ‘Tableau Wannabe Podcast’ hosted by Matt Francis and Emily Kund
New York Times | ‘Tibco Software Agrees to Sell Itself to a Private Equity Firm for $4.3 Billion’
Sundries
Any other items that may or may not be directly linked to data visualisation but might have a data/technology focus or just seem worthy of sharing
Twitter | Are you still on the bus?
Extension 765 | Steven Soderbergh brings to light the brilliance of the ‘Staging’ in Raiders of the Lost Ark
philogb | ‘Color Decomposition: Visualize frame by frame color decomposition.’
FastCo Design | ‘Filmmaker Creates World’s Most Terrifying Traffic Intersection’
Collider | If only there was a map that showed Liam Neeson’s kill patterns (in movies, not real life)… well guess what?
New York Times | ‘Inside the Quartet’
FastCo Create | ‘See how colorful beer can be with cans that show the brew’s proper pantone color’
YouTube | ‘Type Safari with James Victore’
Bezier Method | ‘The Bézier Game: A game to help you master the pen tool’
Twitter | ‘Question of the day’
Design Fails | ‘Thomson Reuters Venn diagram fail’