Data Visualization Aggregator
A nice blog, mainly about Data Visualization. I think its a good collection of whats possible.
A visualization
These guys are dealing with forensic by visualizing data. In this case they want to prove that the Nato did on purpose leaf refugees to die. Its interesting to me how political the this can be.
http://www.forensic-architecture.org/case/left-die-boat/
Artist/Designer
A group of hackers from berlin. They are mainly dealing with maps. From information about political voting to search tools for parkingplaces, these guys are doing a lot.
Visualization Tool
A nodebased programming language. There are several cool projekts done with it. They also have a convention in Germany: http://node.vvvv.org/.
Data Collection Tool
A sniffing tool made with processing. I´m sure there could be some really nice projects made about all the data of people, which didn´t know that they send it out there… unlocked.
Discussion Forum
A speech about the try to map social topics on food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9C4Prjkmc
Data Source
Lots of geojson files, if you want to do stuff with maps.
https://github.com/johan/world.geo.json/tree/master/countries/USAhttp://
Data Ethics
A german convention, where freedom of data and use of data is a big topic.
A Book
I happen to know Sandra from work. The Book is a really good collection of infografics/datavisualizations.
http://www.amazon.com/Information-Graphics-Sandra-Rendgen/dp/3836528797