Best of the viz blogs

If you enjoy my blog, here are some other visualisation blogs (my favourites!) that you might like to sign up to for interesting updates

Flowingdata (particularly their Visualisation category) has a wide collection of very regular posts from different contributors, with some of the best in this post: One of my favourites was Nathan Yau’s on eye-movements of a pianist here, and on demonstrating the many comparable ways to visualise a single set of data (here).

David McCandless is an independent data journalist and information designer, seeking to visualise information in graphical ways that anyone can understand. He has a blog to accompany his book “Information is Beautiful”: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/. I particularly like his interactive post on “Mountains out of Molehills” on how much the world’s biggest fears have been amplified by media, and an interactive chart on cocktails!
Andy Kirk was one of the first freelance visualisation designers and has been involved in some really interesting projects as a result. He’s written a great manual called “Data Visualisation: a Handbook for Data Driven Design”, and is now a visiting lecturer at Imperial College, as well as being a freelance visualisation specialist. His blog is at visualisingdata.com/blog/, check out his series on “The Little of Visualisation Design”:

Kaiser Fung is a data visualisation expert, and was the Web’s first data visualisation critic. In his blog JunkCharts he discusses what makes graphics work, and how to make them better. A US politics example is improved with explanation here:

Cathy Buchanan writes on CapGemini’s Business Analytics blog, I enjoy her picks of cool visualisations that she’s come across each month, for example from Dec 2015 and this tube “heartbeat” map from Feb 2017:

Guiseppe Sollazzo has a broader blog on all things data, he works on digital projects at UCL (amongst other things). Sign up to puntofisso’s newsletter to see data-in-action every week 🙂

Dear-data was a project from a series of weekly postcards sent across the Atlantic on a huge variety of personal lifestyle data topics, each with their own explanatory key – for example this one showing the evolution of their laughter that week!
viz.wtf has a collection visualisations that make no sense, with discussion on why! Highlights include charts that make my head hurt just trying to make sense of them, and a post on how the lights on the Sea Containers building are supposed to show water quality of the Thames – but interpreting it remains a mystery!

TheWhyAxis.Info pulls together interesting visualisations that have featured in media, including this (now fairly dated) New York Times article trying to explain the crisis in Europe:

Others include The Functional Art (Alberto Cairo’s blog on visualisation, infographics and data journalism), Naomi Robbins (teaching others to communicate clearly for decision-making), and Information Aesthetics (a collection from Andrew Vande Moere, a visualisation Associate Professor in Belgium)

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