Research Assignment

Data Visualization Aggregator 

The Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards was organized by David McCandless, the author of Information is Beautiful, and announces the most excellent data visualizations and infographics of the year. You can see from interactive infographics to motion infographics that have been selectively presented on the website.

Data Visualization

The Bike Share Map (New York), which is managed by a british research, Oliver O’Brien, aggregates the data of Bike Share schemes in over 100 major cities all over the world. The vast data is clearly displayed in two different ways: a way in which you can see the real time data or a timeline that shows data changes of the past 48 hours.

Artist/Designer

Nicholas Felton, a Brooklyn-based infographic designer, is famous for annual reports regarding himself that visualize data of daily life. It is interesting that trivial information of one’s daily basis can show intriguing narratives when it is visualized .

Discussion Forum

Open Processing provides people with a space to share and collaborate Processing works with others.

Criticism

False Visualizations: Sizing Circles in Infographics was written by Randy Krum on his website. It discusses what was wrong about the infogrphic in the article “The Truth about the Ice Bucket Challenge,” by underlining that infographics require precision.

Data Source

Wunderground API is a good source if you are interested in producing infographic that deals with weather information.

Data Ethics

Data Will Help Us is a manifesto, created by a digital artist Jonathan Harris and commissioned by The New York Times.  This project questions the positive and negative impacts of “Big Data,” which is now invisibly invading your daily environment.

Book

The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge is basically about trees, and it seems breaking away from data visualizations or infographics at first glance. However, Manuel Lima, a designer and the author of the book, gives many examples of tree shapes which have been universally used as a graphic form for infographics throughout the book.