I guess I should launch a newsletter soon, as I'm seeing plenty of interesting visualizations and visualization-related articles lately—more than usual,—and it's difficult to keep up. Here are a few:
• I'll be on C-Span 2's BookTV on Sunday at 3:30PM EST to talk about How Charts Lie. The program will be available online right after, I believe.
• Kaiser Fung redesigns a chart that was discussed recently in social media.
• Betsy Mason explains why scientists should get better at visualization. Her article is a good introduction to some elementary principles. She even has a section about why rainbow color schemes are evil.
• Jon Peltier writes about maps (maps!) in Excel.
• Nathan Yau talks about a Javascript library that lets you design XKCD-like visualizations.
• Randall Munroe, the creator of XKCD, is in the DataStories podcast, and has many thoughts about science communication.
• Cole Nussbaumer's Storytelling With Data website has a new look.
• There's a new episode of EagerEyesTV, Robert Kosara's video series; it explains data formats.
• Matteo Moretti explains how visualizations can be embedded into larger “informative experiences” through a couple of projects he designed.