Data Visualisation

TED Talk: ¨Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen¨ - Hans Rosling
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History of the colour wheel Great coverage of the different colour wheels across the ages (May 08)
Data and Statistics for Human Rights Story about a statistician bringing analysis to a field that is normally full of anecdotes. Via DataFlow blog (Apr 08)
Visuals are the key to situational awareness Amazon blog post showing why spreadsheet designers should learn lessons from the cockpit (Apr 2008)
Like.com shows visual search works after all VentureBeat article describing how traffic is increasing at Like.com, a visual search interface for shopping (Feb 2008)
Data Visualisation Google Gadgets New visualisation gadgets for iGoogle, thanks to Google's acquisition of Gapminder technology Trendalyzer (Feb 2008)
When patterns mislead Blog post describing how using patterns to predict can fail (Feb 2008)
Google Apps for your newsroom Blog post describing how to use Google apps to collaborate on stories and visualise the end results (Jan 2008)
Imagining The Tenth Dimension How to visualise 10 dimensions... (Flash)
Dashboard Dangers Blog post describing the risks associated with relying too much on dashboards for making business decisions (Oct 2005)
Dashboard Design Blog post about dashboard design tips (Oct 2006)
Distracting Data Why summaries can do too good a job of hiding the detail - sometimes you need to take in the detail (Oct 2005)
Misleading pictures Blog post

Good Books (I've read/used)

  • Ambient Findability, by Peter Morville
  • Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
  • Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few
  • Information Graphics, by Robert Harris
  • The Visual Design of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
  • Visual Explanations, by Edward Tufte

Interesting Web Sites

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