Baseball infographics
Flip Flop Fly Ball features loads of baseball related infographics. The game is a statistician’s wetdream and accordingly, makes for some great visuals.
Fifty years in space
An awesome infographic on 50 years of space exploration from National Geographic, although they’re using a kludgey flash viewport. Check out the full size version while it lasts.
Update: If you like that one, check out this visualization of the various mars missions.
Mountains and molehills
Information is Beautiful has a number of cool information visualizations posted on their site. I particularly like the timeline of global media scare stories.
Control
Periodic table of controllers. An interesting infographic of video game controllers, would be bit cooler if it mimicked the structure of the periodic table a bit better.
GOOD Infographics
GOOD Magazine keeps an archive of all the information graphics used in their articles. Seems like a good place to visit when I need a little inspiration.
Designing for big data
Jeffrey Veen’s presentation on designing for big data. A quick peek into the history of data visualization, how we’re changing from consumers into participants, and how technology has allowed huge amounts of information to be recorded, stored, and analyzed. Personally, I’m just starting to get my feet wet with processing.org and will need to setup some sort of venue to display my experiments.
Data visualization for the masses
Many Eyes is a project from IBM that seeks to “democratize” visualization and create a social kind of data analysis. Upload your own data set or use one of the theirs to create a variety of different visualizations.
The Wayfinding Handbook
A review of The Wayfinding Handbook. I’d like to see a copy before buying, but it looks like a good addition to the collection.
The Science of Typography
The Periodic Table of Typefaces. I have to admit that I like the concept, but the science nerd in me has issues with the execution. The shape roughly resembles the original table, but it fails to make any discernible connection between the typefaces.
The top tracks of 2008
A visual breakdown of Pitchfork’s 100 best tracks of 2008 (compare to Billboard’s tracks) .
We Tell Stories
We Tell Stories from Penguin, features six classics retold as digital fiction. I particularly like Hard Times by Matt Mason and Nicholas Felton.
A timeline of timelines
A timeline of timelines, a history of the linear representation of time.
