Dan writes about how data saved his life. That is not an exaggeration.
He describes how, after receiving some very bad news from his doctor, he dived into the whole “quantified self” thing with his health data. Looking back on it, he concludes:
If I were still in the startup game, I have a pretty good idea of which industry I’d want to disrupt.
A beautiful and disturbing piece of data visualisation. The numbers are quite astonishing.
This is may just be the best thing on the internet about data visualisation and statistics. And sex.
These lovely visualisations of geotagged photos and tweets are almost indistinguishable from aerial views of cities at night.
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
I really like this idea: one street in Brighton is openly displaying its electricity usage over time.
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.
Visualising the Republic of Letters.
Some beautiful pieces of data visualisation.
Visualisations of the history of controversial Wikipedia articles.
A visual representation of each track on the new Girl Talk album.
Telling stories with data — the video.
A beautiful SVG visualisation (with source code) of the Rattle team's experience of dConstruct 2010.
Cute illustration of different content types in HTML (though, personally, I would put sectioning content — section, article, nav, aside — into their own group).
A JavaScript/SVG library for displaying maps in a variety of interesting ways.
Beautiful map visualisations by Aaron Straup-Cope.
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
A beautiful piece of musical mathematical poetry.
Beautiful chemistry visualisations using canvas.
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
A site on designing with data from the author of Visual Language For Designers: Principles For Creating Graphics That People Understand.
Beautiful mapping visualisations of crime data.
Excellent news: Brian is writing a book.
A thoroughly well-researched and data-heavy blog post ...complete with interactive charts!
Beatles infographics.
The geography of musicians.
Matt gets an opportunity to use the Chernoff effect for visualising school data.
An in-depth study mapping all the permutations in "choose your own adventure" books.
A very in-depth article on visually representing Boolean logic in an interface. Stick with it; it's worth it.
A blog devoted to data visualisation.
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
Jack Schulze goes into detail on the genesis of the wonderful Here & There map/visualisation.
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
A visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. From the mad genius that is Cameron Adams.
A Cederholm-designed site for tracking trends on Wikipedia. Check out the HTML5-based class names.
"I love this graph because in one small space, it shows the time of Sunrise and Sunset across the entire world throughout all Latitudes throughout the entire year of this tilted planet."
Information Graphics about WWII for WWII magazine and for the book proposal "A Visual Miscellany of World War II".
I can't wait to get my personal annual report from Dopplr! In the meantime, I'll content myself with the very pretty example of Barack Obama's annual report.
A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (co2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.
Interactive visualizations of what's happening right now.
A collection of network diagrams and visualisations from the simple to the sublime.
A crazy way of viewing news stories courtesy of Brendan Dawes.
The new Radiohead video isn't really a video at all. It's data visualisation. Here you can interact with the data points while the song is playing. I love this.
A tool for generating beautiful visualisations from commits to code repositories.
Wordle puts a new spin on the tired old tag cloud. Here's a cloud of my del.icio.us tags.
A really nice interactive infographic from the New York Times.
Realtime visualisation of feelings on Twitter. I can't help but think that present continuous emotions would have yielded better results; loving, hating, thinking...
Browse trough your twitter friends, and your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends...
A recap of an excellent presentation at BarCamp Brighton 2 on data visualisation.
Gorgeous visualisation from Dopplr of all the places visited in 2007.
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
A really nice visual representation of just how isolated the Imperial system is.
From the people who brought you Ficlets comes a nice app for creating personal timelines. Microformats and OpenID support included.
Beautiful visualisations of flight data.
A new project from Idea Codes (Emily Chang and Max Kiesler): a tag cloud for Twitter.
A nifty app for OS X that allows you to browse your iTunes music by album cover.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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