11 February, 2010

Best places to find data visualizations

dataviz

I've found that good data visualizations are hard to find. Even the best sites have post after post showing ugly bubble diagrams with Twitter connections. So here's my list of some of the best sources for great data visualizations I've stumbled upon in 2009:

http://infosthetics.com/ Great site if you know where to look. Go back in the archives to find beautiful work.

http://flowingdata.com Not as good as infosthetics and also a much smaller site.

http://www.nytimes.com/ Sounds weird, but their graphic department leaded by Steve Duenes come up with great, refined visuals.

http://www.earlboykins.blogspot.com/ Minimalist graphs visualizing performances or everyday experiences.

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ Not my favourite. Look for great data mashups, not great graphics.

http://www.datamasher.org/ Same with this one.

And some greats books:

Maeda @ Media Not the best book about creative coding, but a nice look into the earlier works of John Maeda.

Creative Code The better one by John Maeda.

Graphic Data Revealed A really good book. Short and precise.

Data Flow A truly beautiful book about modern data visualization. 50 percent of the content is great, which is much, much higher than all other stuff around.