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 February 2015.
Visualisations/Infographics
Includes static and interactive visualisation examples, infographics and galleries/collections of relevant imagery.
Washington Post | Nice overlayed mapping showing ‘Damaging Quakes in Oklahoma’
RocketNews24 | ‘Tokyo’s labrynthine subway map in 3-D form!’
Info We Trust | ‘Creative routines’ – daily rituals of the good and the great
Data Driven DJ | ‘Two Trains: Sonification of Income Inequality on the NYC Subway’
Guardian | ‘Election 2015: The Guardian poll projection’
Health Intelligence | ‘Equiplot: A Chart to Display Equity Data’
FiveThirtyEight | ‘The Walk On: How Madden helped a schlub like me make it into NFL’
YouTube | ‘Visualizing Time by Icastic’
Inside Airbnb | ‘Airbnb affects the city’s housing supply and affordability. Explore the key variables of Airbnb use and how it impacts your neighborhood.’
Flowing Data | ‘Interactive: When Do Americans Leave For Work?’
On Broadway | ‘The interactive installation ON BROADWAY represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan.’
ProPublica | ‘Over 1,100 Health Data Breaches, but Few Fines’
Ples Moz Ganov | I’m not entirely sure what this is, as it is in Slovenian, but it looks like an interesting data art project to map the physical movement involved in Dance. I think?
Washington Post | ‘What you need to know about the measles outbreak’
Ben Schmidt | ‘Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews’
Skunk Bear | ‘A predictive sound map of the US’
New York Times | ‘The sounds of the downhill’
WSJ | ‘Track National Unemployment, Job Gains and Job Losses’
Guardian | ‘Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don’t’
Washington Post | ‘One way to Mars’
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
National Geographic | ‘100 Years of National Geographic Maps: The Art and Science of Where’
Cartonerd | ‘When is a heat map not a heat map’
Jerome Cukier | First of an excellent 5-part series of posts discussing dashboards and advice for best practice (
GameAnalytics | ‘Data Visualization in Games’
Sheila Pontis | ‘Defining Information Design’
ProPublica | From 2013 ‘Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics’
Recode | ’10 years of Google Maps’
BBC | ‘Google’s Vint Cerf warns of digital Dark Age’
Haunted Machines | ‘A microconference at @FuturEverything 2015 about stories of ghosts and magic in technology’
Scientific American | ‘How to Choose the Form of an Infographic: It’s All about Context’
Demos | ‘Keeping an eye on the dashboard’
FiLWD | ‘Paper: How Deceptive Are Deceptive Visualizations?’ by Enrico Bertini
Eager Eyes | ‘Spelling Things Out’ discussing redundancy to make a point
Medium | ‘The Architecture of a Data Visualization: Multilayered Storytelling through “Info-spatial” Compositions’
Maney Online | ‘Value-by-alpha Maps: An Alternative Technique to the Cartogram’
New Scientist | ‘What colour is the dress? Here’s why we disagree’ (Forgive me, but the visual perception discussion is valuable)
FILWD | ‘What do we do this VIS thing for? Towards a data visualization ethos.’
Vox | ‘What is data journalism?
Bloomberg | ‘Why Measles May Just Be Getting Started’
Ri Liu | ‘The Network Effects of Following Fewer Women’
xkcd | ‘Stories of the Past and Future’
Learning & Development
These links cover presentations, tutorials, learning opportunities, case-studies, how-tos etc.
Visual Loop | A process design post by Giovanni Magni about his visualisation project “2080 weeks of weather in Milan”
After the Flood | ‘London Squared Map: Making the city easier to read’
Post Graphics | ‘Behind the scenes: An illustrated history of the Super Bowl halftime show’
For Journalism | ‘For Journalism is an effort to equip every student, mid-career journalist, professor, graduate student with the knowledge they need to learn technical skills for doing journalism.’
ImportIO | ‘A data analysis of music samples’ process post by Emanuele Conti
YouTube | ‘Thought Leaders on Interactivity’
Josh Stevens | Excellent recently-discoverd blog, here’s a good example of Josh’s content: ‘Bivariate Choropleth Maps: A How-to Guide’
Visual Loop | A process design post by Alberto Lucas López about the infographic “The Height of Social Values”
USGS | ‘Map Projections – A Working Manual’
The Functional Art | ‘Redesigning a circular timeline’ – the redesign that kicked off a sea of responses, discussions and articles
FastCo Design | ‘What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface?’
Subject News
Includes announcements within the field, brand new sites, new (to me) sites, new books and generally interesting developments.
JSDataVis | New book: ‘Data Visualization with JavaScript’ by Stephen A Thomas
Reddit | A sub-community on Reddit offering ‘A place for visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information’
Brookings | New book: ‘Diversity Explosion’, by Bill Frey
Simon Rogers | New book: ‘Space’ an infographics book for kids by Simon Rogers, designed by Jennifer Daniel
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
ISO 500px | ‘Lisa Bettany, John Wilhelm, and Rolland András Flinta On What Makes a Photograph Great’
BBC | ‘How long would it take you to earn a top footballer’s salary?’
Chrome Experiments | A collection of different technology experiments for the browser
Earth Primer | Discover how Earth works with this App: ‘A science book that is alive’
Twitter | ‘They have some serious visual math tools in my kids’ school. Love it.’
I am the fold | ‘An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous’
Leeds Art Crawl | ‘Spotted some public art that made your day?’
FastCo Design | ‘Lost At The Museum? This Ingenious 3-D Map Makes Navigation A Cinch’
Maker Stories | ‘The Making of Monument Valley’
SMBC | ‘The top 6 reasons this infographic is just wrong enough to sound convincing’
New York Times | ‘The Death and Life of Great American GeoCities’
BuzzFeed | ‘This Is What Political Party Websites Looked Like In 1996′
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