At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter you will see many of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s the latest collection from September 2010:
Nature Methods | A monthly column in Nature Methods on the design of figures and data visualizations | Link
Robert Kosara | Beyond Bertin: Seeing the Forest despite the Trees | Link
Junk Charts | Book review: Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis | Link
Wired | Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Link
Blackweb | Connecting the dots: race and ethnicity via dot visualization | Link
Smart Data Collective | Data Visualization – A Growing Business Need | Link
Lucrum Inc | Video by Eric Duell on Data Visualization fundamentals | Link
O’Reilly Radar | Data Week: Becoming a data scientist | Link
Don Norman’s JND | Systems Thinking: A product is more than the product | Link
Infosthetics | Expense Visualizer: Revealing the Canadian travel and hospitality expenses | Link
Royal Navy Global Ops | Dynamic and interactive mapping feature which plots the current location of the Royal Navy fleet | Link
Quora | How do I become a data scientist? Discussion forum on Quora | Link
Guardian Datablog | How do you visualise the future of datajournalism? | Link
Smashing Magazine | HTML5: The Facts And The Myths | Link
Fastco Design | Infographic of the day: Who’s got the worst urban sprawl? | Link
Innovative Interactivity | Company spotlight: XPLANE the creative information consultancy | Link
Brain Pickings | Interview with Dava Viz star Pedro Monteiro | Link
Standford | Video by Geoff McGhee ‘Journalism in the age of data’ | Link
Perishable Press | Lessons learned after 5 years of blogging | Link
10 Answers | With Nicholas Felton | Link
Infosthetics | Offener Haushalt: Opening up German governmental finance data | Link
Wall Street Journal | Report from the WSJ ‘On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking’ | Link
Fell In Love With Data | Sculpting a great Visual Analytics expert | Link
Stamen Design | I like Bing Maps and I cannot lie | Link
Statistical Graphics and More | Is data the new plague? | Link
Data Driven Consulting | Tableau as a dashboard platform | Link
Tableau | Tableau visual guide whitepaper | Link
O’Reilly Radar | The state of mapping APIs | Link
Guardian Datablog | The tax gap: Information is Beautiful explains | Link
Eager Eyes | Trivialization for the Masses | Link
Six Revisions | Using power structure and Gestalt for visual hierarchy | Link
YouTube | Visualisation video of asteroid discoveries from 1980 to 2010 | Link