At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking 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 March 2011:
ReadWriteWeb | 3 Presentations on R: Data Mining, Web Development and Data Visualization
Rag Tag | A history of the world in 100 seconds
Flowing Data | Animation: The pain that is Los Angeles traffic
The Guardian | Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests
Run of Play | Haunting animation of Gareth Bale’s performances vs. Inter Milan
Standford University | Course wiki site for Stanford’s Data Visualization programme/module
Harvard University | Website for the Harvard visualization programme/module
The Guardian | Data journalism broken down: what we do to the data before you see it
TedTalks | Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Communications of the ACM | Design Principles for Visual Communication
New York Times | When the Data Struts Its Stuff
Eddology | Why Startups Need To Blog: A Summary
Eye Magazine | Max Gadney argues that information design should be a compulsory part of every graphic design course
Freakalytics | Rapid Graphs for Tableau 6 book update now available
Patrick Cain | Demonstration of mapping using Google Fusion Tables
Flowing Data | German defense minister’s plagiarized PhD dissertation visualized
Smashing Magazine | How to choose a typeface
Revolution Analytics | Download the white paper: R is Hot
Core 77 | In defence of delight
Visual Journalism | Infographics and the Brain – Stephen Few
Graphic Sociology | Infographics inspire art | R. Justin Stewart
Infogrpahics News | How to create Google Maps directly from Google Docs
Luke W | Web App Masters: Steps to Beautiful Visualizations
New York Times | Map showing how Manhattan’s grid grew
Viz World | Milestones in the History of Visualization
Vimeo | Moritz Stefaner @ decoded‘10
Visual Journalism | Moviebarcodes – How many insights do you get from them?
New Scientist | Invisible Wi-Fi signals caught on camera
User Interface Engineering | Podcast of Noah Iliinsky – The Steps to Beautiful Visualizations
Scientific American | Infographics: The great circle debate
Eager Eyes | One chart to rule them all
Wired | Parasol doubles as a clock
Pop Tech | PopTech interview: Data visualizing Malcolm Gladwell, NASA’s Kepler project and color with Jer Thorp
Zeit Online | Tell-all telephone data
Visual Journalism | The Aesthetics of Conversations – Paolo Ciuccarelli
Junk Charts | The best way to handle two dimensions may be to not use two dimensions
Visual Journalism | The Death of Datavisualization in the News
Junk Charts | Too much art, not enough science in infographics
Flowing Data | Typographic world map and water colors
Information is Beautiful | Vintage infoporn – number 1
Perceptual Edge | Old BI and the Challenge of Analytics
Social Compare | Visualization comparison tool : visualize sizes, dimensions differences
Visualizing.org | Q&A with Nathan Yau
Nieman Journalism Lab | Voices: News organizations must become hubs of trusted data in a market seeking (and valuing) trust
Bloom Blog | Bloom’s Web 2.0 Expo talk: Data Visualization for Web Designers:
Mashable | Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation
Seeing Complexity | Why visualize data? We don’t know (yet)