Three DataViz Blogs

I do a poor job of keeping my blogroll up to date. Here are three blogs that I really enjoy which post on various aspects of presenting data in a graphical form.

Point By Fascinating Point: Statistics, research, infographics and thoughts on data and design

In their own words:

We’re a group of people excited by data and research, statistics and the clouds of numbers that surround us. Not a lot of folks can say that.

We’re so excited, in fact, we created this blog to point to interesting infographics, studies, and new findings.

We also use this site as a repository to post and share data we find, but don’t necessarily have a commercial use for. It’s still interesting to someone, though!

So take a look around, check out the charts and graphs. Then check out the charts and graphs and infographics from other sites.

I like this blog as it does a great job of sniffing out interesting graphics and providing short summaries and perspective on them. Have a look at this example from a recent post:

Junk Charts: Recycling chartjunk as junk art

In the Kaiser's own words:

Edward Tufte has declared chartjunk as an enemy of clear, informative graphics of data. Chartjunk is everywhere, particularly in mainstream media. I am a junk artist dedicated to recycling chartjunk as junk art. Please come in and see my collection.

This is a great blog to subscribe to for a perspective on the problems, pitfalls and misconceptions about data visualization. One of the most amazing things you learn here is how often bad presentations surface in highly visible publications. A recent post looks at the following neat looking but ultimately confusing graphic describing causes of death (created by the National Geographic Magazine based on data from the National Safety Council):

Pictures of Numbers: Techniques for improving you data graphics

Like Junk Charts, this blog provides some interesting analysis of data visualization problems (e.g. here). However, one of the most interesting aspects of the content is the description of project work carried out by the author. For example, this post describes the creation of a new infographic describing the evolution of ratites.

If you know of other great blogs in this space, leave a comment!

 

 

Comments

[Jorge Camoes]

I started some months ago a blog in this area in Portuguese (link to the English automatic translation http://bizviz.jorgecamoes.com/en ). I focus on try to improve graphic literacy and business information visualization using the common office tools. I also have in my blog a co-op google search engine for visualization, presentations, etc.

[Juan Pablo de Gregorio]

the top 100 math centers ordered by he number o citations per research paper in the las 10 years.
Yn the wheel you can find 5 class of information:

1. the number of the ranking
2. the name of the math center
3. the average of impact per paper
4. the name of the math center
5 and a little compaision about the paper production

http://www.flickr.com/photos/de_gregorio/853650392

Thanks by the excellent blog

[Miriam]

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Miriam

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