Flowing data
A lot of news websites are jumping on the visual-information bandwagon right now, from the Visual Science section of the New York Times–which selects standout graphics from recent scientific publications and explores what they represent–to the insightful political statistics at FiveThirtyEight.com.
These are all interesting reads, but my favorite data-graphics discovery right now is the Flowing Data blog, which collects fantastic graphics from all over the web. Two recent posts of theirs that caught my eye:
1) New York Times Shines at International Infographics Awards
2) 24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr
Also check out:
My friend Robin Stewart’s program OmniGraphSketcher is a fantastic tool for drawing graphs–I’ve used it several times at work, to throw together quick examples of what I expect to see from my experiments.
The Relative Permeability Explorer at Sally Benson’s lab at Stanford is an elegant Adobe Flex-based interface for browsing data on carbon dioxide’s fluid behavior within stone (yup, you read that right).
Tags: communicating science, data visualization, graphical information